Arthur Coleman Danto (b. 1924) is an American art critic, [[[Splanket]]] and philosopher. An art critic is normally a person who have a speciality in giving reviews mainly of the types of fine art you will find on display. Typically the art critic will go to an art exhibition where works of art are displayed in the traditional way in localities especially made... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ...

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. Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

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. Art criticism is the study and evaluation of art. ...

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. The Nation logo The Nation is a weekly leftist periodical devoted to politics and culture. ...

• Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy

• B.A., Wayne State University (1948)
• M.A., Columbia University (1949)
• Ph.D., Columbia University (1952)

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. Wayne State University Wayne State University, located in Detroit, Michigan, is adjacent to the citys Cultural Center. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, in present-day southwest Germany. ... Maurice Merleau-Ponty (March 14, 1908 - May 4, 1961) was a French phenomenologist philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl, and often somewhat mistakenly classified as an existentialist thinker because of his close association with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and his distinctly Heideggerian conception of Being. ... Arthur Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860) was a German philosopher born in Gdańsk (Danzig), Poland. ...