Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (AP) — Arthur C. Danto, a provocative and influential philosopher and critic who championed Andy Warhol and other ...

Arthur C. Danto was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1924, and grew up in Detroit. After spending two years in the Army, Danto studied art and history at Wayne University (now Wayne State University) ...

Charting the disappearance of beauty as a primary artistic value in the 20th century, Danto (The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, etc.) offers a hot-and-cold mix of philosophical musings and ...

Marvin Danto, a visionary developer who made South Florida a global destination for the furniture design industry, died Tuesday from natural causes in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. He was 95. In 1983, when ...

Arthur C. Danto, a provocative and influential philosopher and critic who championed Andy Warhol and other avant-garde artists and upended the study of art history by declaring that the history of art ...

In an obituary for the New York Times, Ken Johnson described Arthur Danto (1924–2013) as “one of the most widely read art critics of the Postmodern era.” Danto, who was both a critic and a professor ...

Why is Andy Warhol's Brillo Box a work of art when a pile of Brillo pad boxes that looks identical to it is not? From the moment in 1964 when he first saw Warhol's sculpture until his death aged 89, ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Arthur C. Danto, a provocative and influential philosopher and critic who championed Andy Warhol and other avant-garde artists and upended the study of art history by declaring that ...