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 ...

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 ...

It is now about twenty years since the whole race of Germans began to “transcend.” Should they ever wake up to this fact, they will look very odd to themselves. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1826 It is ...

IDSVA at the Museo Casa de Leon Trotsky, Mexico City, January 2025 (photo by Simonetta Moro) Apply today for September 2025 admission. The IDSVA PhD in Visual Arts: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art ...

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 ...