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1. Seeking 'Convulsive Beauty'.

Author

Danto, Arthur C.

Subjects
*SURREALISM, *ART exhibitions, *LITERARY movements, *LITERATURE, *ART movements
Abstract

The article focuses on Surrealism of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Surrealism was essentially a literary movement, whose primary products were books, magazines, poems, letters and manifestoes. The legendary Surrealist exhibitions of the late 1930s and early 1940s were Surrealist in spirit and secondarily Surrealist in content. In 1942, for example, an exhibition called "The First Papers of Surrealism" was installed at the Whitelaw Reid mansion on Madison Avenue in New York, and those that attended it were far more likely to remember the show itself than any of the works on display.

Published
2002

2. American Graffiti.

Author

DANTO, Arthur C.

Subjects
*ART exhibitions, *ART museums, *PAINTERS
Abstract

Reviews the exhibition "Cy Twombly: 50 Years of Works on Paper," at the Whitney Museum of American Art through May 8, 2005.

Published
2005

3. Art.

Author

Danto, Arthur C.

Subjects
*ART exhibitions, *ART museums, *ARTS facilities, *ARTISTS, *MIND & body
Abstract

This article presents the author's views regarding the extensive retrospective exhibition of the work of Robert Morris at the Guggenheim Museum, uptown and downtown, have titled the exhibition "The Mind/Body Problem," probably because a certain number of Morris's works are animated by the old philosophical conundrum. A work of visual art-paint and canvas, ink and paper, metal or stone-yields nothing in point of grossness to the fleshy matter of which the arm is framed. So when one tries to perform a Wittgensteinian subtraction and ask what remains of the work of art when one take away its "body" viz., whatever has weight and takes up space and is subject to chemical action. One answer might be, nothing.

Published
1994