The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art by Arthur C. Danto

The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art

Arthur C. Danto

224 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction art philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Danto simply and entertainingly traces the evolution of the concept of beauty over the past century and explores how it was removed from the definition of art. Beauty then came to be regarded as a serious aesthetic crime, whereas a hundred years a...

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