The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art (The Paul Carus Lectures Series 21)
by Arthur C. Danto
Category: Art

Leading art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto here explains how the anti-beauty revolution was hatched, and how the modernist avant-garde dislodged beauty from its throne. Danto argues not only that the modernists were right to deny that beauty is vital to art, but also that beauty is essential to human life and need not always be excluded from art.