Arthur C. Danto is Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York and the art critic for The Nation. His books include Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post Historical Perspective and Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present, which won the Book Critics Circle Award.
Robert Mangold’s gently curving, majestic paintings are among the most beautiful abstract works of the late twentieth century. Emerging in the 1960s, Mangold is often associated with Minimalism for his...