The lecture marks publication of the Russian translation of the book What Art Is by American theorist Arthur Danto (1924-2013), one of the key figures in art philosophy of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Two books by American theorist Arthur Danto What Art Is and The Artworld have been translated into Russian as a part of Garage's publishing program in collaboration with Ad Marginem press.
In her lecture Natalia Smolyanskaya, artist, curator, and contemporary art theorist will talk about Danto’s philosophical concepts and expand on why we don’t see an artwork outside the system described by Danto as "the artworld". What constitutes the notion of "art", to which Danto devoted significant part of his work? How to tell "art" from "non-art" in the light of his theory ?
