O retrato de Andy Warhol: o artista segundo Arthur Danto

Abstract

The present dissertation consists on the analysis and bibliographical revision of North American philosopher Arthur Danto’s work. The aim of this research is to seek in Danto’s works his “idea” of the artist and to analyse the way North American artist Andy Warhol is used as an example and as the main figure in this idea. Danto does not structure this idea conceptually, however is is possible to extract it by means of his examples in which artists are in. The research was divided into three moments: Danto’s theoretical fundaments and influences that sustain his main concepts, which are the concept of art and of the “end of art”; usage of examples of artists in Danto’s work and demonstration of his “ideia” of artist; Andy Warhol’s analysis according to Danto and other authors. In the course of the dissertation, there will be stablished dialogues between Danto and Georg Hegel, Clement Greenberg, Thierry de Duve, Hal Foster, Lucy Lippard, Hector Obalk.