![]() To the eye, the two kinds of boxes, he suggested, are pretty much the same, or, as philosophers would say, indiscernible. ''It is the role of artistic theories, these days as always, to make the artworld, and art, possible.'' Into the indiscernible flesh and blood of the sacrament?''ĭanto's epiphany had a corollary: it is not up to the eye to decide that the facsimile Brillo boxes are art and the real Brillo boxes are not. ''Has the whole distinction between art and reality broken down?'' Are all things ''latent artworks waiting, like the bread and wine of reality, to be transfigured, through some dark mystery, In a famous essay in The Journal of Philosophy titled ''The Artworld,'' Danto gave voice to his epiphany. At the Stable Gallery in New York he beheld Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes, a pile of plywoodīoxes silk-screened to look like real cardboard Brillo boxes. First Chapter: 'The Madonna of the Future'.Arthur Danto, art critic, never strays far from Arthur Danto, philosopher. ![]()
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