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Since the mid-1980s, Arthur C. Danto has been increasingly concerned with the implications of the demise of modernism. Out of the wake of modernist art, Danto discerns the emergence of a radically pluralistic art world. His essays illuminate this novel art world as well as the fate of criticism within it. As a result, Danto has crafted the most compelling philosophy of art criticism since Clement Greenberg. Gregg Horowitz and Tom Huhn analyze the constellation of philosophical and critical elements in Danto's new- Hegelian art theory. In a provocative encounter, they employ themes from Kantian aesthetics to elucidate the continuing persistence of taste in shaping even this most sophisticated philosophy of art.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Rise of Philosophical Art Criticism 1 -- Chapter 1. In the Beginning Was Formalism 17 -- Chapter 2. The Structuralist Adventure 33 -- Chapter 3. The Historicist, Antiessentialist Definition of Art 55 -- Chapter 4. Resentment and Its Discontents 71 -- Chapter 5. The Deconstruction of Structuralism 87 -- Afterword: The Fate of Philosophical Art Criticism 111.

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements. -- List of Illustrations. -- Preface. -- 1. Public Opinion/Public Art. -- 2. Non-Western Ideas. -- 3. Western Ideas. -- 4. Beauty. -- 5. Expression & Aesthetic Experience. -- 6. Art & Ethics. -- 7. Political Art, Censorship & Pornography. -- 8. Art & Economics. -- 9. Feminist Art, Aesthetics & Art Criticism. -- 10. Postmodern Art & Attitudes. -- 11. Photography & New Media. -- 12. (Re)Discovering Design. -- 13. Art & Aesthetic Education. -- 14. Artists, Art Critics, Art Historians, Curators, Museums & Viewers. -- References. -- Index.

This paper explores the dialogue between Collingwood and Guido de Ruggiero on art and art criticism. The sense of identity of these two activities, it will be argued, can be understood only if one considers the criticism of living art: The art of one who also creates, who through a critical process transforms an outline into a work of art. Thus understood a work of art belongs to the life of the spirit, if considered from the dimension of becoming. Only by reliving the past can it be transformed, yet this requires an understanding of the map of human experience. This is what constitutes specular phenomenology, a phenomenology reflected in the mirror of art and scientific analysis.