In this video I break down Arthur Danto's belief that Art ended in the 1960's when he saw Andy Warhol's Brillo Boxes. He approaches the theory of art through classical philosophy and uses frameworks established by Plato and Hegel, among others, to build a story of art that results in a conclusion, and thus an ending. This may give viewers new insights into the ways we can approach contemporary art.

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Works Cited
Danto, Arthur Coleman, and Lydia Goehr. After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History. 2014.
Danto, Arthur C. What Art Is. Yale University Press, 2014.
Danto, Arthur Coleman., and Jonathan Gilmore. The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art. Columbia University Press, 2005.
Danto, Arthur C. The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: a Philosophy of Art. Harvard Univ. Press, 1981.
Ferguson, John, and Plato. Plato: Republic: Book X. Bradda Books, 1978.
“Hegel's Understanding of History.” Philosophy Now: a Magazine of Ideas, philosophynow.org/issues/140/Hegels_Understanding_of_History#:~:text=Hegel's theory of dialectics constitutes,, but of 'logic'.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Phenomenology of Spirit. Clarendon Press, 1977.
Linsenmayer, Mark, et al. “REISSUEEp 16: Arthur Danto on Art (w/ New Intro): The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast: A Philosophy Podcast and Blog.” The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast | A Philosophy Podcast and Philosophy Blog, 7 Feb. 2022, partiallyexaminedlife.com/2022/02/07/reissueep16dantoart/.
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Purje, Tiernan Morgan & Lauren. “An Illustrated Guide to Arthur Danto's ‘The End of Art.’”

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