The Abuse of Beauty The Paul Carus Lectures 21

Leading art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto here explains how the anti-beauty revolution was hatched, and how the modernist avant-garde dislodged beauty from its throne. Danto argues not only that the modernists were right to deny that beauty is vital to art, but also that beauty is essential to human life and need not always be excluded from art.

Arthur Danto is Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and art critic of The Nation.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xxi

Introduction: The Aesthetics of the Brillo Box

1

(16)

Beauty and the Philosophical Definition of Art

17

(22)

The Intractable Avant-Garde

39

(22)

Beauty and Beautification

61

(20)

Internal and External Beauty

81

(22)

Beauty and Politics

103

(22)

Three Ways to Look at Art

125

(18)

The Beautiful and the Sublime

143

(18)

Index

161

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