Object Details
- Creator
- Danto, Arthur Coleman, 1924-
- Motherwell, Robert Burns, 1915-1991
- Subject
- Danto, Arthur Coleman
- Motherwell, Robert Burns
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- Letter : 2 p. : typescript, photocopy ; 28 x 22 cm
- Summary
- Danto writes in response to Motherwell's letter thanking him for his review of Motherwell's retrospective exhibit at the Guggenheim museum in New York. He compares aspects of Motherwell's work to philosophical principles of Kierkegaard and Plato, and discusses how he stumbled into art criticism.
- Citation
- Arthur Coleman Danto. Arthur Coleman Danto letter to Robert Burns Motherwell, 1985 March 10. Arthur Coleman Danto papers, 1979-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- 1985 March 10
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)17847
- Type
- Correspondence
- See more items in
- Arthur Coleman Danto papers, 1979-1998
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Art criticism
- Philosophy
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_17847
