What Art Is

by Arthur C. Danto

Book Overview

A lively meditation on the nature of art by one of America's most celebrated art critics

What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300205716
• ISBN13: 9780300205718
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"