Arthur C. Danto (b. 1924) is an American art critic, professor and philosopher.
Professor Danto has been teaching at Columbia University (NYC) since 1951, a professor since 1966. He has been the recipient of many fellowships and grants including two Guggenheims, ACLS, and Fulbright, and has served as Vice-President and President of the American Philosophical Association, as well as President of the American Society for Aesthetics.
Danto is the author of numerous books, including Nietzsche as Philosopher, Mysticism and Morality, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Narration and Knowledge, Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy, and Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present, a collection of art criticism which won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for Criticism in 1990. His most recent book is Embodied Meanings: Critical Essays and Aesthetic Meditations.
As art critic for The Nation, he has also published numerous articles in other journals. In addition, he is an editor of the Journal of Philosophy and consulting editor for various other publications.
Areas of Specialization: Thought, Feeling, Philosophy of Art, Theory of
Representations, Philosophical Psychology,
Hegel's Aesthetics,
and the philosophers Maurice
Merleau-Ponty and Arthur
Schopenhauer.