Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life

by Arthur C. Danto

Book Overview

An Incisive Account of the Bizarre, Often Bewildering Art World of Today Arthur Danto's new collection finds him, and the art world, at a point when the art world has become pluralistic, even chaotic-with one medium as good as the next-when the moment for "next things" has passed. Since 1984, when Danto-already an eminent philosopher--became The Nation's art critic, he has been one of the foremost theorists of contemporary art's history and evolution,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374281181
• ISBN13: 9780374281182
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"