After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History

List of Illustrations ix
Foreword to the Princeton Classics Edition xi
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxi
CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Modern, Postmodern, and Contemporary 3
CHAPTER TWO Three Decades after the End of Art 21
CHAPTER THREE Master Narratives and Critical Principles 41
CHAPTER FOUR Modernism and the Critique of Pure Art: The Historical Vision of Clement Greenberg 61
CHAPTER FIVE From Aesthetics to Art Criticism 81
CHAPTER SIX Painting and the Pale of History: The Passing of the Pure 101
CHAPTER SEVEN Pop Art and Past Futures 117
CHAPTER EIGHT Painting, Politics, and Post-Hisotrical Art 135
CHAPTER NINE The Historical Museum of Monochrome Art 153
CHAPTER TEN Museums and the Thirsting Millions 175
CHAPTER ELEVEN Modalities of History: Possibility and Comedy 193
Index 221

Arthur C. Danto (1924–2013) was the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and art critic for the Nation from 1984 to 2009. His books include What Art Is and Encounters and Reflections, winner of the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Lydia Goehr is professor of philosophy at Columbia University. Her books include The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works and Elective Affinities.