Preface viiiJonathan Gilmore and Lydia Goehr Notes on Contributors x Introduction: Five Pieces for Arthur Danto (1924–2013) In memoriam 1 Lydia Goehr, Daniel Herwitz, Fred Rush, Michael Kelly, and Jonathan Gilmore 1 Roquebrune, 1962 15 Ginger Danto 2 Boundaries Crossed 18 András Szántó 3 Writing with Style 26 Arturo Fontaine 4 Sartre, Transparency, and Style 33 Taylor Carman 5 Nietzsche and Historical Understanding 42 Robert Gooding-Williams 6 Pragmatism between Art and Life 51 Richard Shusterman 7 Danto on Dewey (and Dewey on Danto) 59 Casey Haskins 8 Thought Experiments: Art and Ethics 68 F. M. Kamm 9 A Normative Perspective on Basic Actions 76 Carol Rovane 10 Cognitive Science and Art Criticism 85 Mark Rollins 11 Perception 93 Sam Rose and Bence Nanay 12 The Anthropology of Art 103 David Davies 13 The Birth of Art 112 Whitney Davis 14 The End of Art 124 Georg W. Bertram 15 Representation, Truth, and Historical Reality 132 Frank Ankersmit 16 History and Retrospection 143 Noël Carroll 17 Action in the Shadow of Time 152 Adrian Haddock 18 The Sixties 162 Espen Hammer 19 Criticism and the Pale of History 170 Gregg M. Horowitz 20 Postmodernism and Its Discontents 180 David Carrier 21 Shakespeare and the Repetition of the Commonplace 190 Rachel Eisendrath 22 Engaging Henry James: The Metaphorical Perspective 199 Garry L. Hagberg 23 Literature, Philosophy, Persona, Politics 207 Richard Eldridge 24 Moving Pictures 216 Fred Rush 25 Photography and Danto’s Craft of the Mind 223 Scott Walden 26 Transfiguration/Transubstantiation 233 Sixto J. Castro 27 Embodiment and Medium 240 Tiziana Andina 28 The Style Matrix 248 Sondra Bacharach 29 Disenfranchisement 256 Jane Forsey 30 Definition 263 Karlheinz Lüdeking 31 Danto and Dickie: Artworld and Institution 273 Michalle Gal 32 Danto and Wittgenstein: History and Essence 281 Sonia Sedivy 33 Censorship and Subsidy 292 Brian Soucek 34 Amnesty International and Human Rights 301 Emma Stone Mackinnon 35 Random Noise, Radical Silence 309 Marlies De Munck 36 Mad Men and Pop Art 317 Sue Spaid 37 Vija Celmins: Nature at Art’s End 326 Sandra Shapshay 38 The Meaning of Ugliness, The Authority of Beauty 336 J. M. Bernstein 39 Feminist Criticism: On Disturbatory Art and Beauty 345 Peg Brand Weiser 40 Beauty and Politics 355 Matilde Carrasco Barranco 41 Public Art: Monuments, Memorials, and Earthworks 363 Gary Shapiro 42 On Architecture 373 Remei Capdevila-Werning 43 Aliveness and Aboutness: Yvonne Rainer’s Dance Indiscernibles 381 Kyle Bukhari 44 Arthur and Andy 389 Daniel Herwitz 45 Letter to Posterity 397 Arthur C. Danto Index 404

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