Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life (2007), Arthur C. Danto

Unnatural Wonders 是批評文章結集。哥倫比亞大學出版社的版本，有16 頁索引：最令人驚訝處是 Jesus Christ 的：19, 22, 44, 45~46, 48, 87, 102, 104~106, 157, 173, 177, 195, 252, 258, 260~61, 304, 310, 354
作者的大學哲學系辦公室與鈴木大拙的講堂很近，所以 D. T. Suzuki 有6處，我們最熟的是 Ching-yuan (佛眼清遠 , 1067-1120)的 "

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Arthur Coleman Danto
Arthur Danto, 2012
Born	January 1, 1924 Ann Arbor, Michigan
Died	October 25, 2013 (aged 89) New York City
Alma mater	Wayne State University Columbia University
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Main interests	Philosophy of art Philosophy of history Philosophy of action
Notable ideas	Narrative sentences Basic actions End of Art Post-historical Art Indiscernibles
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Arthur Coleman Danto (January 1, 1924 – October 25, 2013) was an American art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University. He is best known for having been an influential, long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he contributed significantly to a number of fields, including the philosophy of action. His interests included thought, feeling, philosophy of art, theories of representation, philosophical psychology, Hegel's aesthetics, and the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Books[edit]

Danto is the author of numerous books on philosophy and art, and summarizing the works of Continental philosophers in Anglo-American terms.^[16]

Arthur Danto's published works include:

• Nietzsche as Philosopher (1965)
• Analytical Philosophy of History (1965)
• What Philosophy Is (1968)
• Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge (1968)
• Mysticism and Morality: Oriental Thought and Moral Philosophy (1969)
• Analytical Philosophy of Action (1973)
• Sartre (Fontana Modern Masters, 1975)
• The Transfiguration of the Commonplace (1981)
• Narration and Knowledge (1985) - Including earlier book Analytical Philosophy of History (1965)
• The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (1986)
• Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy (1989; with new preface, 1997)
• Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (1990)
• Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective (1992)
• Embodied Meanings: Critical Essays and Aesthetic Meditations (1994)
• After the End of Art (1997)*
• The Abuse of Beauty (2003)*
• Red Grooms (2004)
• Andy Warhol (2009)
• What Art Is (2013)

* 有中譯本

Essays[edit]

• "The Artworld" (1964) Journal of Philosophy LXI, 571-584
• The State of the Art (1987)
• Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (1990)
• Playing With the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe (1995)
• The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste (1998)
• Hegel's End-of-Art Thesis (1999)
• Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays (1999)
• The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World (2000)
• The Body/Body Problem: Selected Essays (2001)
• The Poetry of Meaning and Loss: The Glass Dresses of Karen LaMonte (2005)^[17] Karen LaMonte
• Peter Fischli David Weiss (a survey of their oeuvre, with Danto collaborating) (2005)
• Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life (2007)
• Architectural Principles in the Art of Sean Scully (2007)