An Interview with Noël Carroll - On Arthur Danto and Art Criticism

Nice interview

This is an absolutely well-made interview. It is helping me a lot in my art criticism studies. Greetings from Brasil!

Whoa this interview is quality. Well done.

I knew him as a teacher privately and as a friend. We would see each other almost monthly from 1997 to 2013 at the time I moved with my wife Esther Pasztory after her retirement from Columbia to Maine, which Arthur knew, had visited quite often. I find it hard to speak about him even now he seems alive. I cannot find the words to speak of him as one would an abstraction.

Wonderful interview. Can Brillo boxes be shown in anything other than reproductions of grocery stores in reptoductions of suburban neighborhoods? Certainly not in galleries. If the end of art then surely the end of art galleries...of a certain kind.

Excellent work, thank you.

I'm not a huge fan of when people attempt to conflate Arthur Danto the philosopher with Arthur Danto the art critic: I think they should be examined independently. Love hearing Carroll talk though!

I have no idea who those people are, but I agree with everything he said. Once I heard a theory about the rise of modern art, it would be because the Soviet Union used "art" solely as a form of propaganda (the same thing those "historical critics" are trying to do). The USA anti-propaganda was saying that political propaganda in itself was a bad thing (although they had their propaganda, just look at Captain America). Rich people, feeling ashamed of funding blatant anti-communist propaganda, started funding modern art, because it was better the nothing about nothing than communist propaganda. Funny enough nowadays the left embrace modern art, which is as devoid of meaning as capitalism can get, and conservatives hate modern art because if it means nothing it is nothing but a waste of time. I don't know if any of this is true, but Arthur Danto was certainly onto something. I found this video because I don't believe photography is art, it is a technique about using a machine, if there is a real artist was the guy that made the machine. I was trying to find some support for this, and it seems Arthur Danton commented about the subject.

Such an incredible philosopher

Interesting!

thank you so much for this video! its great! everything! the speaker the topic the lighting the questions

Amazing work! Congrats on interviewing Carroll, so glad I was able to find your video!

the only useful thing I got from all this is his distinction btetween art"s :meaning:or :purpose{. But insofar as describing anythingt Danto himself had to say about art, no [nsights were delivered here beside the point mentioned innfirst sentence/This entire hour mentione no othet discussable art-subject beside Warhol's Brillo Boxes.. WTF

Brillo Box is NOT art, Warhole was a leading intellectual and socialite but an artist he was not, by a long stretch. You wipe your $, you take that, you put it in a frame and you call that art? That's the death of art alright.

So art has just become philosophy?

I totally enjoyed this interview and it clarified so many concerns for me as an artist in the modern world. I seem to hang in between tradition, postmodernism and now I discovered post-historical art. Thank you for sharing these insights.

Have always loved Danto’s writings . From an introverted deep thought artist philosopher. I love Rosalind Krause too!

This is a lot of pretentious nonsense. Peop[e trying to distinguish themselves as important scholars or thinkers. Another good explanation of what is being said is "BS" Art is in the Brain of the beholder. Has anybody learned anything here about art? What is art? Art is what I say it is. What is god?, What is love? Anybody needing intellectual explanations of art is missing the art of art. This all is meaningless.

I defy anybody to show me what makes Pretentious Picasso a genius. He was a genius at fooling everyone like Trump is. Pretentious scholars all fall in line every generation with no courage or brains continue the myth. 
Art critiques are posers

The importance of Andy Warhol's work? Robert Hughes, after meeting Warhol, said that he was one of the stupidest people he ever met. A man with nothing to say.

As a philosopher who works on aesthetics and the philosophy of art, I am extremely grateful to be able to listen to these interviews and watch them too. Thank you for taking the trouble to make them and thank you to Professor Carroll for his wonderful work.

It's abit strange how the idea of post- modernism was sort "distorted" in the US-climate. As i have lived as a youngsters those years in Europe the postmodernism in Art and later architecture meant exactly the opposite then in US ( as described here) . Postmodernism in Eureop was the delusional abandoment of any political revolutionary (vague) projects of radical leftwingers. Projects that feiled in the late 60/early70s (68 in France Italy Germany). Postmodernism is in Europe was associated with the fundamentale idea of acceptance of reality as such with his complexity. whithout any tranformative feasable plans on sight. The european brand of postmodernism means the hironical (maybe flaneruish) acceptance of a failed modernity....