id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9842 Arthur Danto - Wikipedia .html text/html 3047 388 61 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 a 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. It has had considerable influence on aesthetic philosophy and, according to professor of philosophy Stephen David Ross, "especially upon George Dickie's institutional theory of art. Arthur Danto was an art critic for The Nation from 1984 to 2009, and also published numerous articles in other journals. Danto is the author of numerous books on philosophy and art, and summarizing the works of Continental philosophers in Anglo-American terms.[18] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9842.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9842.txt