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The Era of Post-Historical Art
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 20, Number 3, July 1987
- pp. 269-272
- Article
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The painter Frank Stella has argued recently that the task of painting today is to maintain the tradition of great abstract art. The philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto has claimed that this is a post-historical era, a time in which it no longer makes sense to think in such terms. Comparing and contrasting these accounts offers a suggestive approach to much of the art discussed in Leonardo.