Acknowledgements1 Introduction2 Danto, Art, and History3 Danto, Style, and Intention4 Essence, Expression, and History: Arthur Danto's Philosophy of Art 1 Essence and Expression: Danto's Philosophy of Art 2 The End of Art: Danto's Philosophy of Art History 3 A Critical Examination of Danto's Philosophy of Art 4 Concluding Remarks5 Danto's New Definition of Art and the Problem of Art Theories6 The End of Art?7 Danto, the End of Art, and the Orientational Narrative 1 Introduction 2 Misunderstandings: The Endlessness of Art 3 The End of Art 4 Criticisms of the End-of-Art Thesis 5 Re-Reading Danto8 Arthur Danto and the Problem of Beauty 1 On Why Beauty in the Narrow Sense Appears to be a Problem for Danto 2 On Why Beauty Has No Place in Danto's Concept of Art 3 Explaining (or Explaining Away) the Relevance of Beauty to Art Properly So-Called 4 Arthur Danto's Concept of Art and Beauty in a Broader Sense9 Arthur Danto, His Philosophy of Art and Critical Practice 1 Essentialism without Critical Value Judgments 2 Danto's Definition of Art and His Critical Practice 3 Danto's Philosophy of Art History and His Critical Practice 4 Art Criticism without Evaluation? 5 Summary10 Arthur Danto and the Political Re-Enfranchisement of Art 1 Introduction 2 Disenfranchising Art 3 Danto and the Possibility of Political Art 4 Summary11 Danto, Pluralism, and Politics 1 Between Modernist Autonomy and Post-Modernist Engagement 2 Danto, Modernism, and Pluralism 3 Post-Modernist Political Advocacy and Post-Historical Pluralism 4 Summary12 The Philosophy of Art History, Dance, and the 1960s13 Arthur Danto Goes to the Movies 1 Introduction 2 Danto's Ontology of Cinema 3 Danto and the History of the Moving Image 4 Danto and Moving Image Criticism14 Warhol's Empire15 Danto's Philosophy of History 1 Historical Retrospecton 2 The Substantive Philosophy of History 3 The Eye-Witness View of History 4 The End of Art16 Danto's Comic Vision: Philosophical Method and Literary Style 1 Introduction 2 Danto's Philosophical Method 3 Comedy Tonight 4 A Happy Ending17 The Age of DantoAppendix: Two Brief Notes on What Art IsIndex.