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American philosopher of art — the artworld and the end of art
Columbia University · United States · d. 1 January 1924 (Ann Arbor, Michigan) — 25 October 2013 (New York City)
Walked into the Stable Gallery in 1964, saw Warhol's Brillo Box and asked why it was art when the supermarket carton was not. The answer, published in the Journal of Philosophy that October, was that art requires an atmosphere of theory: the artworld. He wrote criticism for The Nation from 1984 to 2009 and argued that art had ended without stopping.
Generative systems have not answered the question of whether a machine can be an artist. They have made it impossible to leave the question vague. A survey of what Danto, Benjamin, Barthes, Collingwood, Dewey, Goodman, Adorno, Heidegger and Boden actually help with, and where the courts have got ahead of the philosophers.
Martin Heidegger, Arthur Danto, Walter Benjamin, Margaret Boden
