Week of March 14

Over break we were assigned a reading by Arthur Danto entitled "After the end of Art". This work presents Danto's reformulation of his original insight that art ended in the sixties. With abstract expressionism art has turned from what it was established to be in the Renaissance. Arthur engages the reader in several conversations that discuss the relevant philosophical issues of art. His reading covered art history, pop art, "people's art" the the role of museums. He states that it wasn't the invention of pop art and modernist art that ended the traditional ways of what art seemed to be. Danto challenges readers to think about the role that contemporary art plays and what direction it may be taking in the future. This article was interesting as it allowed us to challenge Danto's propsed thesis and formulate our own thoughts about how we felt about this topic.