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The End of Art?
Author(s) -
Carroll Noël
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
history and theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.169
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1468-2303
pISSN - 0018-2656
DOI - 10.1111/0018-2656.651998065
Subject(s) - skepticism , criticism , philosophy , history of art , art history , end of history , epistemology , art , aesthetics , literature , law , visual arts , politics , political science , architecture
This article focuses on the arguments that Arthur Danto has advanced for alleging that the developmental history of art is over. The author is skeptical of Danto's conclusion and maintains that Danto has failed to demonstrate that art history is necessarily closed. The author also contends that Danto's end‐of‐art thesis is better construed as a specimen of art criticism than as an example of the speculative philosophy of art history.