Making Theory/Constructing Art
On the Authority of the Avant-Garde
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Making Theory/Constructing Art
On the Authority of the Avant-Garde
Artists and critics regularly enlist theory in the creation and assessment of artworks, but few have scrutinized the art theories themselves. Here, Daniel examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions, and institutions that have framed the development and uses of art theory.
Spurred by the theoretical claims of Arthur Danto, a leader in the philosophy of the avant-garde, Herwitz reexamines the art and theory of major figures in the avant-garde movement including John Cage, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, and Andy Warhol.
Spurred by the theoretical claims of Arthur Danto, a leader in the philosophy of the avant-garde, Herwitz reexamines the art and theory of major figures in the avant-garde movement including John Cage, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, and Andy Warhol.
370 pages | 30 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 1993
Art: Art Criticism
Philosophy: Aesthetics, General Philosophy
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What We Have Inherited
Pt. I: Studies in Avant-Garde Art
1: Setting the Stage: Arthur Danto’s Reading of the Avant-Garde
2: Constructivism’s Descartes
3: Constructivism’s Utopian Game with Theory
4: Mondrian’s Plato
5: John Cage
Pt. 2: The Legacy of the Avant-Garde
6: Reading Arthur Danto’s Theory
7: Reading Arthur Danto’s Reading of the Object
8: Andy Warhol without Theory
9: The Uses of Theory in the Contemporary Artworld
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What We Have Inherited
Pt. I: Studies in Avant-Garde Art
1: Setting the Stage: Arthur Danto’s Reading of the Avant-Garde
2: Constructivism’s Descartes
3: Constructivism’s Utopian Game with Theory
4: Mondrian’s Plato
5: John Cage
Pt. 2: The Legacy of the Avant-Garde
6: Reading Arthur Danto’s Theory
7: Reading Arthur Danto’s Reading of the Object
8: Andy Warhol without Theory
9: The Uses of Theory in the Contemporary Artworld
Notes
Index