Arthur C. Danto

Arthur Danto is an art critic and professor of philosophy. He is the author of several books of collected essays, including: Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present, which won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for Criticism in 1990; Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective; Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe; and Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life.