He might actually have liked that, too. Sticking to his guns about esthetics, he could have proclaimed the end of art. He and Danto might end up liking each other a great deal. Here at the end of art history, the idealist and the pragmatic art lover could chair a panel together. I sure would show up.
Imaginary art can never become real, but all art throws life into the workings of the imagination.
Critics and philosophers share the priceless job of looking for it there. Essays in a Pluralistic Art World was published in 2000 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The essays first appeared starting in 1993, mostly in The Nation .