Title: Unnatural wonders : essays from the gap between art and life /
Authors: Danto, Arthur Coleman, 1924-
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Art Philosophy; Art, Modern
Abstract: "Arthur C. Danto's five volumes of review essays form a chronicle of the art world in our time, and a running appraisal of the great variety of significant work made in our midst." "In this new book, Danto shows how work that bridges the gap between art and life is now the definitive work of our time: Damien Hirst's arrays of skeletons and anatomical models, Barbara Kruger's tchotchke-ready slogans, Renee Cox's nude portrait of herself presiding at the Last Supper. To the obvious question - is this stuff really art? - Danto replies with an enthusiastic yes, explaining, with a philosopher's clarity and an art lover's delight, how these "unnatural wonders" show us who we are."--Jacket.
Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Art criticism after the end of art -- Whitney Biennial 2000 -- "Making choices" at MOMA -- Chardin -- Tilman Riemanschneider -- Damien Hirst -- Barbara Kruger -- Yoko Ono -- Sean Scully and the art of painting -- Paul McCarthy -- Sol Lewitt -- Renee Cox: Yo Mama's Last supper -- William Kentridge -- Picasso erotique -- Joseph Bartscherer's obituary -- Philip Guston -- Philip Guston: the Nixon drawings -- Alberto Giacometti -- Norman Rockwell -- Surrealism and eroticism -- Artemesia Gentileschi -- Gerhard Richter -- Barnett Newman and the heroic sublime -- Joan Mitchell -- The art of 9/11 -- Robert Mangold -- Park Avenue cubists -- Da Vinci drawings -- Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle -- Christian Schad and the Sachlichkeit of sex -- Malevich and supermatism -- Max Beckmann -- Whitney Biennial 2004 -- John Currin -- Dieter Roth -- Jeff Koons -- Installations by Joshua Neustein -- Kalliphobia -- The world as warehouse: Fluxus and philosophy -- Painting and politics -- The fly in the bottle.