Publisher's Synopsis
A debate about the death of art on Danto's view that art is coming to an end. The themes of art examined in this work are its status and existence in the future; the idea of "anti-art"; the fading of boundaries between traditionally different art forms and new forms of expression and theoretical considerations.;Among other issues addressed in this work include "Self-knowledge and self-destruction in avant-garde art" by Crispin Sartwell and "Art and time: Toward an analysis of time in art" by Arto Haapala.