Arthur Coleman Danto
American art critic and philosopher (1924-2013) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 89
Arthur Coleman Danto was an American art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University.
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He was best known for having been a long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he contributed significantly to a number of fields, including the philosophy of action. His interests included thought, feeling, philosophy of art, theories of representation, philosophical psychology, Hegel's aesthetics, and the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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