Arthur Danto died

In New York, at the age of 89, the philosopher and artist Arthur Danto died.

Arthur Danto was born in 1924, studied the history of art at Wayne University, philosophy at the Columbia University and the Sorbonne near Maurice Merlo-Ponty. Returning to New York in 1951, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he later became a professor and worked all his life.

Danto held the positions of Vice President and the President of the American Philosophical Association and the President of the American Aesthetic Society, for many years he was an art critic in The Nation magazine, published articles in other publications about art, the author of monographs and essays on aesthetics, art and philosophy.

Many discoveries of Arthur Danto were associated with the work of Andy Warhol, about which he wrote his last large monograph (2007), Kommersant notes. In 1964, Danto visited Andy Warhol's exhibition at Stable Gallery , where Brillo boxes were shown. And under the influence of what he saw, he invented the term “world of art” ( Artworld ), which formed the basis of American institutional theory: any thing, whether it is a pusser or cardboard packaging, acquires the status of a work of art, falling into Artworld , in the “atmosphere of the theory of art”, that is, joining the artistic context and becoming the subject of aesthetic discussion.

In his essay “End of Art” (1984), Danto concluded that art in the classical sense has exhausted itself, becoming one of the forms of philosophy. “To be an artist today means to philosophize with visual means,” he explained his thesis later in the commentary for The Art Newspaper .