Arthur C. Danto’s The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (1981), a classic of American philosophy, widely read by contemporary artists, opens with a marvelous example. Søren ...

For Americans of my generation doing philosophical aesthetics, Arthur Danto (1924-2013) was the key figure. He became famous because he offered a system defining art and linking it to other activities ...

The essays in Aesthetics Equals Politics make the case for a reignited understanding of aesthetics—one that casts aesthetics not as illusory, subjective, or superficial, but as a more encompassing ...

This article originally appeared on Imprint. It's part of Print magazine's annual New Visual Artist series that profiles 20 of the most promising rising talents around the world in the fields of ...

Critical theory and aesthetic philosophy intersect in a sustained inquiry into how art, culture and society inform one another. Originating with the Frankfurt School’s dialectical critique, this field ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In his monumental two-volume Aesthetics, the German philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977) rejects the ...

Philosopher of aesthetics who had exceptionally high standards and was kind to students and colleagues Can an aesthetic judgment be regarded as a statement of truth? The philosopher Malcolm Budd, who ...