Absence Adorned
ISBN 978-0-9726649-1-2, distributed by University of Washington Press
Size: 11 ¾ x 9 ½ in. (297 x 238 mm), 88 pages, 51 color plates
Essays by Arthur C. Danto and Juli Cho Bailer, Curator.
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Arthur C. Danto is an analytical philosopher. Throughout his academic career he has been associated with Columbia University in New York City, where he is now Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy. His main achievement is a systematic study in five volumes on the subject of representation, beginning with Analytical Philosophy of History (1965), Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge (1968), and Analytical Philosophy of Action (1973). The fourth volume, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (1981), led to a second career, beginning in 1984, as art critic for The Nation. A collection of his critical essays won the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism in 1992; and another, The Madonna of the Future (2000), won the Prix Philosophie in Paris in 2003. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, the artist Barbara Westman.