Abstract

OLVERA, PABLO  and  MARTINEZ, Mariano. NARRATION AND SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS A CRITICAL READING OF A. C. DANTO’S POSTULATES REGARDING THE END OF ART. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2015, vol.64, n.157, pp.171-189. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v64n157.40099.

Danto begins his philosophy of the history of art with the problematic issue that characterizes modernism: a work of art becomes indiscernible from a mere thing insofar as it is the logical result of the narrative of a certain period. To speak of the end of art is to speak of the reasons that support such narrative and the possibility of its culmination. The article proposes a critique on the basis of the relation among essentialism, historicism, and pluralism, in order to examine Danto's controversial thesis regarding the historical end of art due to the exhaustion of its cognitive impulse.

Keywords : A. C. Danto; art; essentialism; historicism; pluralism.

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