Arthur Coleman Danto manuscripts, 1958-2011

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Series I: Writings, 1958-2001, undated



Box 1 Abide/Abode, 1988


Abstract Expressionist Coca-Coca Bottle, undated


Abstraction, 1996


Abstraction Liberated, 1994


Academy and the Salon, 1998


Academy and the Salon--Slides, 1998, (slides)


Ad Reinhardt, 1991


Age of Redefinition, 1993


Analytical Philosophy Today, undated


Andy Warhol's Brillo Box, undated


Animals as Art Historians, undated


Arakawa and Gins, 1990


Arakawa and Gins' The Mechanism of Meaning, 1979


Arakawa/Gins, 1997


Architectonics of Nature, 1996


Arnheim's the Power of the Center, 1982


Art and Meaning, 1998


Art and Optical Gratification, undated


Artifact and Art, 1988


Art in America, 1999


Artist at Work, 1995


Artistic Beauty and the Intractable Avant-Garde, 2000


Artistic Transformation of the West, undated


Artnews, 1993


Art of the Taxpayer, 1998


Art School and Society, 1997


Artschwager/Danto, 1994


Art, Sex, and the Spectre of Puratinism, 1991


Artworks and Real Things, 1971


Art-World, undated


Artworld and Its Outsiders, 1997


Aspects of Perception, 1982


Association for Asian Studies Meeting, 1964


Autres Temps, Autres Moeurs, undated


Backing Into Philosophy, undated


Basic Actions, undated, 2 folders


Basic Actions and Basic Concepts, 1978


Baudrillard, 1990


Baule Catalog, 1997


Baxandall's Patterns of Intention, 1985


Beauty and Beautification, undated


Beauty and Morality, 1997


Beauty and the End of Art, 2001


Beliefs as Sentential States, undated


Belting's The End of the History of Art, 1987


Betty Woodman, 1996


Beyond the Brillo Box--Draft, 1998, 5 folders


Body/Body Problem, 1985 2001, 1985, 2001, 2 folders


Bourdieu's The Rules of Art, 1996


Braque, Picasso, and Early Cubism, 1989


Breslin's Mark Rothko: A Biography, 1993


Bruce Nauman, 1994


Brushstroke Through History, 1994


Canonical Reflections, 1991


Canova and Passagno, 1989


Caravaggio's Madonna of the Rosemary, 1993


Carrier and Higgins, undated


Causality, Representations, and the Explanation of Actions, undated, 2 folders


Causation and Basic Actions, undated


Censorship and Study in the Arts, undated


Chang Yee Memorial Service, 1997


Cindy Sherman's History Portraits, undated


Complex Events, 1968, 2 folders


Constantin Brancusi, 1995


Contemporary Art in Context, 1988


Critical Language of Glass, 1994


Criticism, Advocacy and the End-of-Art Condition, 1996


Crow's Modern Art in the Common Culture, 1998


Cultural Discovery of America, 1992


Cy Twombly, undated



Box 2 Action, Knowledge, and Representation, undated


American Ceramics, 1997-1998


Analytical Philosophy of Art--Draft, Notes, Proof, 1972-1973 undated, 1972-1973, undated, 8 folders


Analytical Philosophy of History--Draft, 1965


Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge--Notes, Proof, 1968 undated, 4 folders


An Answer or Two for Spearshott, 1976


Andy Warhol, undated


Andy Warhol and the Love of $, 1997


Approaching the End of Art, undated


Art and Appropriation, 1994


Art and Money, 1987


Aver's Wittgenstein, 1985


Bad Aesthetic Times, undated


Basic Actions and Basic Concepts, 1978


Basishandlungen und Basisbegriffe, 1978

(in German)


Battlefields as Text: Reading Gettysburg, 1986


Beam on Maine/Art, 1990


Brookhaven Hamlet as Historic District, undated


Building Metaphors, 1984


Causality, Representations, and the Explanation of Actions, 1979 undated, 2 folders


Cavell's A Pitch of Philosophy, 1994


Charles Taylor, 1992


Clifford's the Predicament of Culture, undated


Comment on Alan Gewith's The Epistemology of Human Rights, undated


Comment on Heller and Feher, undated


Comments on Beardsley's Paper on Inevitability, undated


Comments on Professor Schmitt's Paper Tools, undated


Complex Events, 1968 undated, 2 folders



Box 3 Danger of Beauty, undated


Danto and His Critics, 1993


Danto/Nauman/Bidlo, 1997


David Reed and Manhattan Baroque, 1999


Davidson's Essays on Actions and Events, 1980


Davis' The Museum Transformed, 1991


Decade After the End of Art, undated


Decline and Fall of the Analytical Philosophy of History, undated


Democracy and the Arts, 1998


Depiction and Description, undated


Descartes and the End of Art, 2000


Determinism and Inevitability, undated


Dislocationary Art, 1992


Doing Philosophy, undated


Dozen Years of Solitude: Hilton Kramer as Critic, undated


Dworkin's How to Think About Human Rights, 1984


Education and the Museum of Fine Arts, 1999


Encyclopedia Americana: Mind, undated


Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Persons, undated


End of the Outsider, 2000


Epistle to the Reader, undated


Eric Fischel, 1999


Ethics of History, Emory University, 1998


Eva Hesse, 1992


Existentialism, 1977


Faith, Language, and Religious Experience, undated


Fernand Leger, 1998


Ferry's Homo Aestheticus, 1994


Fine Art and the Thirsting Millions, 1993


Fine Arts and Functional Objects, 1992


Fischli and Weiss, undated


Florine Stettheimer, 1995


Foreword to Feminist Aesthetics, 1993


Francis Bacon, 1990


Franz Kline, 1995


Freedberg's the Power of Images, 1989


Freedom and Forbearance, undated


Fried's Manet's Modernism, 1998


Furniture as Art, undated


Gage's Color and Culture, 1994


Garry Knox Bennett and Contemporary Art, 1997


Garry Knox Bennett's Clocks, undated


Gavin's Libertarianism and Responsible Agency, undated


Geach's Reference and Generality, 1962


Georges Seurat, 1991


Getty, 1998


Greenfield's Return of Cultural Heritage, 1989


Greenfield's The Devil and Dr. Barnes, 2006


Hand-Painted Pop, 1993


Hans Hoffman, 1990


Hegel's End-of Art Thesis, 1999


Helen Frankenthaler, 1989


Henderson's The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry, 1984


Hendrick Goltzius, undated


Henri Matisse, 1992


High, Low, and the Spirit of History, undated


High + Low at MOMA, 1990


Historical Language as Historical Reality, 1974 undated, 2 folders


History and Representation, undated


Hockney's Sets for Turnadot, 1991


Holley's Panofsky, 1985


How to Think About Human Rights, undated


Humanities, 1982


Human Nature and Natural Law, 1963


Humor of Blood and Skin: A John Hawkes Reader, undated


Idea of the Masterpiece in Contemporary Art, 1998


Idea of the Masterpiece in Contemporary Art--Slides, 1998, (slides)


Illiad in, July, 1996


Images, Labels, Concepts, and Art, undated


Imagination, Reality, and Art, undated


Importance Art, undated


Importance of Art, undated


James Coleman, Slide Artist, 1994


James Rossant, 1995


James' Will-to-Believe, 1968


Jasper Johns, 1997


Jenny Holzer, 1990


John Cederquist, undated


John Heartfield, 1993


Kazimir Malevich, undated


Komar and Melamid, 1995


K.O.S. and the Art History of Collaboration, undated


Krauss and Livingston's L'Amour Fou, 1985


Krauss' The Optical Unconscious, 1993


Kucklick's Rise of American Philosophy, 1977



Box 4 Connections to the World, 1988 1996, 1988, 1996, 6 folders


Consciousness and Motor Control, 1985


Cy Twombly, 1996


Danto on Knowledge as a Relation, 1969


Dasein and Design, 1994


Deception and Explanatory Economy, 1987


Dennett's Elbow Room, 1984


Derrida's Margins of Philosophy, 1982


Discovering Kimura, 1989


Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present, 1990, 5 folders


Narrative and Never-Endingness: A Reply to Margolis, undated

Written in reply to the Joseph Margolis essay "Endless Future of Art," a copy of which is also found in this folder.


Ernst Gombrich as Monument and as Picturologer, undated, 2 folders


Ethical Theory and Mystical Experience, undated


Fisher's Perceiving Artworks, 1980


Foreward to Hardin's Color for Philosophers, 1987


Freedom as Endowment, 1990


Freudian Explanations and the Language of the Unconscious, undated


From Aesthetics to Art Criticism, 1995 undated


From Aesthetics to Art Criticism--slides, undated, (slides)


From Aesthetics to Art Criticism--diskette, undated, (3 ½ inch diskette)


Future of the University and the Temper of Time, undated


Gaburo's Brain, 1981


Gaugin, undated


Gettysburg: The Battlefield as a Work of Art, undated


Goodman on Pictures, 1969


Goya, undated


Historical Explanation, Historical Understanding, and the Human Sciences, undated


Hoving's Making the Mummies Dance, 1992


Introduction to Narration and Knowledge, undated



Box 5 Langer as Philosopher, undated


Langer's Mind, 1988


Late Works of Delacroix, 1998


Learning to Live with Pluralism, undated


Lee Savage and the Imagined Portrait, 1994


Legacy of Andy Warhol, 1987


Leon Polk Smith and Real Space, 1993


Letter from Vienna, 1996


Linguistic Philosophy and Religious Beliefs, undated


Logical Status of the Concept of Equality, 1970


Louis Kahn as Archai-tekt, 1995


Lucian Freud, 1994


Madonna of the Future, 1997


Mantegna, undated


Manuscript on Mind, undated, 2 folders


Mapping the Art World, 1994


Mapplethorpe, undated


Marcel Duchamp and the End of Taste, 2000


Mark Rothko, undated


Margolis on Interpretation, undated


Mario Merz, 1989


Martin Puryear, undated


Masterpieces and the Museum, undated


Masterwork of Wendell Castle, 1991


Matisse, Art, and Le Bonheur, undated


Matossian's Black Angel, 1999


Metaphor and Cognition, undated


Maurice Sendak, 1988


Max Neuhaus, 1991 1996 1998, 1991, 1996, 1998


Media and the Artworld, undated


Mellon Lectures, 1995, 2 folders


Message in the Ashes, undated


Michele Oka Doner, 1997


Ming and Qing Paintings, 1989


Monet in the 90's, 1990


Moral Philosophy and Oriental Thought, 1971, 2 folders


More Than Meets the Eye, undated


Motherwell, 1993 1996, 1993, 1996


Motherwell--Slides, undated, (slides)


Munakata in New York, undated


Murdoch's the Good Apprentice, 1986


Museum of Fine Arts Boston, undated


Museum and the Thirsting Millions, undated


Museum as Will-to-Power, 2001


Museum of Museums, undated


Mysticism and Aesthetics in Eliot Deutsch's Thought, undated


Mysticism and Morality, 1972, 2 folders


Naked Truth, 1997


Narration, Knowledge and the Philosophy of History, undated


Narrative and Style, 1991 undated


Nausea and Noesis, undated


Nietzsche, undated


Nietzsche and Semantical Nihilism, undated


Nietzsche's Daybreak, 1982


Normal Rockwell, undated


On Artschwager on Art, 1989


On Representational Elements in Human Action, undated



Box 6 Introduction to APA Presidential Address, 1969


Kaufman's What is New About the New Art History, undated


Kolakowski's Metaphysical Horror, undated


Kolakowski's Modernity on Endless Trial, undated


Lectures in Aesthetics, 1962-1963


Linde's Image and Dimension, 1986


Logical Portrait of the Assassin, undated


Lovibond's Realism and Imagination in Ethics, 1983


Luke's Marxism and Morality, undated


Lust's Violence and Defiance, undated


Mangold's Zone Paintings, 1997


Mangold's Zone Paintings--Photographs, undated, (4x6 photographs)


Mark Tansey, undated


Megill's Prophets of Extremity, undated


Men Bathing, 1994


Milo's Immorality, undated


Moral Justification, undated


Moving Pictures, 1976, 3 folders


Narration and Knowledge, 1985


Narrative Sentences, undated


Nietzsche as Philosopher, undated


Nordland's Diebenkorn, 1988


Note on Expressions of the Referring Sort, 1998


Notional World of D.E. Dennet, 1988


Nuevas Abstracciones, 1996


Of Time and the Artist, 1999


Old, New, and Not So New Art History, undated


Once in July, undated


On Consciousness in Machines, 1960


On Human Rights of Frenchman and Americans, undated


On Knowing That We Know, undated


On McKim, Mead, and White, undated


On Moral Codes and Modern War, undated


Outline of a Theory of Sentential States, undated


Outlines for a Theory of the Humanities, undated


Philosopher as Andy Warhol, 1993


Philosophical Investigator, undated


Philosophy of Action, 1965, 2 folders


Philosophy of Art, undated, 3 folders


Philosophy of Art History, undated


Racz Drawing, 1998


Recent German Painting, undated


Religious Enthusiasm in America, undated


Remembering Andrew Racz, 1998


Representational Character of Ideas, 1978


Republic of Space, undated


Response to Louis Mackay, 1983


Response to Mr. Bradley's Letter, 1969


Royalty Statements, 1962-1963 1965-1969, 1962-1963, 1965-1969, 2 folders



Box 7 Painting and Difference: Recent Portraits by Chuck Close, 1993


Painting and Writing, 1993


Paradigm Regained, undated


Paragraph on Alternative Spaces, undated


Pennsylvania of Arts Commencement, 1996


Perl's Paris Without End, 1988


Phi Beta Kappa, 1988


Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, 1993


Philosophical Individualism in Chinese and Western Thought, undated


Philosophies of Love, 1990


Philosophizing American Art, undated


Philosophy and Art Criticism, undated


Philosophy and Its Journals, undated


Philosophy and Post-Modern Furniture, undated


Philosophy and the Art of Collecting, undated


Philosophy as/and/of Literature, undated


Philosophy of Science, undated


Photography and the Visual Lie, 1994


Photography and Performance, undated


Photography as Performance, 1991


Photography in Contemporary German Art, undated


Picasso and the Idea of the Masterpiece, undated


Picasso and the Portrait, 1996


Picasso's Stills Lifes, 1992


Pictorial Phenomenology and the Political Allegory in Erro's Art, 1999


Pictorial Representations and Works of Art, undated


Piero's Resurrection, 1991


Plantinga's Modalization of the Ontological Argument, undated


Poincare's Conventialism and Duchamp's Stoppages, undated


Politics of Imagination, 1987


Popova, undated


Port Royal Grammar, undated


Post-Historical Abstract Painting, 1991


Post-Minimalist Sculpture, undated


Post-Modern Art and Concrete Selves, undated


Public Art and Social Utility, undated


Quinton's Thoughts and Thinkers, 1982


R.B. Kitaj, 1995


Red Grooms and the Spirit of Comedy, undated


Reflections Upon Randall's Philosophy of Language, undated


Remembering Motherwell, undated


Reply to Professor Wolgast, undated


Reply to Professors Dickie and Postiglione, 1993


Response to Kathy Constantinides, 1989


Responsibility of the Critic, 1986


Restoration and Meaning, 1999


Richard Avedon, 1994


Richardson's Life of Picasso, 1991


Robert Morris, Body and Mind, 1994


Robert Rahway Zakanitch, 1994


Robert Ryman, 1993


Role and Rule in Oriental Thought, undated


Rosemary Trockel, 1991


Ryman and Post-Modernism, 1993


Sacred Art of Tibet, 1991


Salvador Dali, 1994


Santayana's The Sense of Beauty, undated


Sartre on Intentionality and Imagination, undated


Schapiro's Thought and Philosophy of Art, 1994


Sean Scully on Paper, 1996


Searle's Mind, Brains, and Programs, 1980


Seeing and Showing, 1997


Sensation, 1991


Sistine Chapel, 1991


Site Specific Works in Charleston, undated


Sofanisba Anguissola and the Guerilla Girls, 1995


Some Reflections on Literature and Life, undated


Some Remarks on the Genealogy of Morals, undated


Sorbonne, 1999


State of the Artworld, 1990


Steinberg's Dis-covering of America, 1992


Stench of Lazarus, undated


Style and Salvation in the Art of Beuys, undated


Symbolic Expressions of the Self, undated


Tapestry and the Loincloth, undated


Temkin and Rose's Thinking is Form, 1993


Thaetetus, undated


Three Brillo Boxes, 2000


Tim Rollins + KOS, 1990


Titian, 1990


Toward a Theory of Retentive Materialism, undated


Towards a Dissolution of the Ontological Argument, undated



Box 8 Robert Irwin: Art-in-Response, 1991


Robert Mangold, 1993


Role of General Studies, undated


Sartre, 1985


Sartre's Le Scenario Freud, 1984


Sartre's War Diaries, undated


Science as Intentional System, 1982


Sean Scully's Catherine Paintings, 1993


Seat of the Soul, 1996, 2 folders


Semantical Theory and the Logical Limits of Nihilism, undated


Sentential States, undated


Sexe et Mort dans les Vanitas d'Henri Maccheroni, 1991


Skinner on Verbal Behaviorists, 1982


Some Notes on Hedonism, 1974


Some Recent Turns in Moral Philosophy, 1974


Statements About the Past, undated


Steadman's Illustrations for Animal Farm, 1996


Reprints, undated


Ted Cohen's Some Questions About Sports and Art, undated


Terenzio's The Collection of Writings of Robert Motherwell, undated


Theories of Art and the Art-World, undated


Thomas Hart Benton Interview, 1988


Two Lessons from Joan Miro, 1993


Two Stages of Student Morality, undated


Untitled Manuscript, 1974


Untitled Papers and Pages, undated, 5 folders


Unused Materials, undated


Up Against the Ivy Wall, undated


Variations in Pictorial Culture, 1988


Warhol, undated


Warhol and the Politics of Prints, 1996


Watson's Wisdom and Strength, 1989


What Has Happened in Philosophy, 1984


William's Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, 1985


Wolheim's the Mind and Its Depths, 1993


Work of Art and the Historical Future, undated



Box 9 Arthur Danto Interview--Recording, 2000, (audio tape)


Arthur Danto Lecture--Recording, 1985, (audio tape)


Cartier Interview (Artschwager and Danto)--Recording, undated, (audio tape)


Dialog at the Aldrich (Motherwell and Danto)--Recording, 1987, (audio tape)


Mellon Lectures--Recording, 1995, (5 audio tapes)


Radio Nation--Recording, undated, (audio tape)


Sean Scully, Harvard--Recording, 1992, (audio tape)


Transfiguration of the Commonplace, 1981 undated, 7 folders


Translation and Betrayal, undated


Trompe L'oeil, 1992


Trompe L'oeil and Transaction, undated


Turner's Inventing Leonardo, 1993


Two Daniels, undated


Updike's Just Looking: Essays on Art, undated


Van Dyck, 1991


Varandoe's A Fine Disregard, 1990


Velasquez, 1989


Vermeer, 1996


Wake of Art, undated


Walker Art Center, 1982


Watson's Strange Bedfellows, 1991


Wexner Center at Ten, 1999


Whatever Happened to Beauty, undated


What Philosophy Is, 1970 undated


Whitney Biennial, 1991 1993, 1991, 1993


Willem de Kooning, 1994


William Harper's Jewelry, undated


Wilson's Hydrogen Jukebox, 1992


Wind's The Eloquence of Symbols, 1986


Wittgenstein's On Certainty, 1991


Women and Mainstream Art, 1989


Woodmansee's The Social Foundations of Aesthetics Forms, 1993


Work of Art and the Historical Future, undated


World Authors: 1985-1990 1993, 1985-1990, 1993



Box 10 Analytical Philosophy of History--Proof, 1964, 2 folders


Jean-Paul Sartre--Proof, 1971


Mysticism and Morality--Proof, 1972


"Original Creative Principle": Motherwell and Psychic Automatism--Proof, 1996



Box 15 Folder 1 Analytical Philosophy of Action. T.ms., pages 1-84


Box 15 Folder 2 Analytical Philosophy of Action. T.ms., pages 85-170


Box 15 Folder 3 Analytical Philosophy of Action. T.ms., pages 171-255


Box 15 Folder 4 Analytical Philosophy of Action. T.ms., pages 256-340


Box 15 Folder 5 Analytical Philosophy of Action. T.ms., pages 341-End


Box 15 Folder 6 Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge. T.ms., pages 1-75


Box 15 Folder 7 Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge. T.ms., pages 76-150


Box 15 Folder 8 Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge. T.ms., pages 151-225


Box 15 Folder 9 Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge. T.ms., pages 226-300


Box 15 Folder 10 Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge. T.ms., pages 301-End



Box 16 Folder 1 Jean-Paul Sartre. Galley proofs


Box 16 Folder 2 Jean-Paul Sartre. A.ms.


Box 16 Folder 3 Jean-Paul Sartre. T.ms., Pages 1-66


Box 16 Folder 4 Jean-Paul Sartre. T.ms., Pages 67-End


Box 16 Folder 5 Jean-Paul Sartre. T.ms. (setting copy), Pages 1-66


Box 16 Folder 6 Jean-Paul Sartre. T.ms. (setting copy), Pages 67-End


Box 16 Folder 7 Nietzsche As Philosopher. T.ms. Chapters 1-3


Box 16 Folder 8 Nietzsche As Philosopher. T.ms. Chapters 4-6


Box 16 Folder 9 Nietzsche As Philosopher. T.ms. Chapters 7-End


Box 16 Folder 10 The Body-Body Problem. T.ms. and audio cassette. (University Lecture, 13 November 1965)



Box 11 Correspondence:


1958


1960-1978, 18 folders


1980-1983, 6 folders


1987-1989, 2 folders


1991-1994, 2 folders


1996-1998 undated, 1996-1998, undated, 2 folders

Series II: David Carrier Correspondence



Box 12 1971-1972


1978-1979


1982-2011, 30 folders

Series III: Artwork



Box 13 Artwork Sales and Consignment Statements, 1958-1965 1968, 1958-1965, 1968


Sketchpads, 1964-1965 undated, 1964-1965, undated, (5 sketchpads)



Box 14 Sketchpads, undated, (5 sketchpads)