Start thinking about the next show, Eureka! Art critic Arthur Danto promoted art that broke the mold...eureka art. After the Warhol show, Danto pursued a definition of art that could be applied to both the Sistine Chapel and a Brillo box. He rejected the ancient Greek idea that art was imitation and the Renaissance ideal that art was defined by aesthetic pleasure. Danto was shaped by the 20th-century rise of ready-mades, ordinary objects turned into art, whether Warhols Brillo boxes or the urinal Marcel Duchamp submitted to galleries during World War I. In What Art Is, Danto concluded that art was the embodiment of an idea, defined not by how it looked but by what it had to say.
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 16:13:30 +0000
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