Danto thinks that the development of art history was over in 1964, because Andy Warhol's "Brillo Box" appeared. We can no longer make a distinction between this work of art and the real Brillo Box, which is just a commonplace object. However, the end of art does not mean we cannot make art anymore, nor does it mean that art has lost its value. It just means the concept of art is exhausted. No new style of art can emerge. There is no direction for art history to go on. Danto told us that there are two consequences of the end of art. One is we can find the essence of art and define art in terms of non-manifest properties. The other is pluralism. / Danto was influenced by Hegel's view of art history, he used "self understanding of art" to interpret the development of art, and he thought that the development of modernist art is to find out the essence of art. The end of art means that art can no longer understands itself, it should pass this mission to philosophy. Although generally speaking I agree with that the interpretation of art history given by Danto, I think the end of modernism does not necessarily mean the end of art, and also there is no need to interpret the development of modernist art only from the perspective of seeking the essence of art. Moreover, I do not accept the definition proposed by Danto. I want to argue that we can define art when there is no essence. Besides discussing the problems of the end of art and the definition of art, I have also discussed problems that are related to pluralism, such as evaluation of art and postmodernism. / 梁光耀. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2006. / 參考文獻(p. 178-182). / Adviser: Chang Yuan Liu. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0599. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2006. / Can kao wen xian (p. 178-182). / Liang Guangyao.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_343957 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Contributors | 梁光耀., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Philosophy., Liang, Guangyao. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | Chinese, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, theses |
| Format | electronic resource, microform, microfiche, 1 online resource (v, 211 p. : ill.) |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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