The term “philosophizing art” was coined by Arthur Danto, who tried to define new forms of art, especially Andy Warhol’s pop art appeared in New York after 1960’s, which could not be explained by traditional concept of “representation”. As Danto said “the term 'philosophizing art' is unclear, whether art discusses philosophical issues or art is the object of philosophic discussions,” it does not seem like Danto himself had a specific idea when he used this term. The background for Danto coining this term derives from the fact that the old art concept such as denotation and connotation could not fully explain phenomenalistic aspects of concept art which appeared frequently at that time. Many articles in his book “philosophizing art," in which many of his criticism are included, mainly say that art begins philosophizing by dealing with not mimesis or representation but concepts. According to his argument, the history of western art, which has been consisted of mimesis and representation, has come to end when art is about physically embodied with meaning. Of course, as Danto say so, what goes to end is not art itself, but the narrative of art. It means master narrative saying art should be shown different from nature or artificial daily product is over. Danto could not find principals of mimesis and representation which had been main logic in the western art history, when he saw Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes at Stable Gallery, New York in 1964. Danto questioned “if we can not distinguish Brillo box’s artistic aspects visually from other factory-made products, how can we distinguish art from non-art,” By answering those questions, he discovered two facts which made him realize the end of Art: One is there is no special way in which works of art have to be shown or has to exist. Therefore, art history has proven that commercial boxes, trashes and files of underwear can be a work of art. The other is we have fully recognized it at the end of 20thcentury. Danto confessed that through Brillo Boxes, he realized the works of art are decided by something can not be seen by eyes, not by distinguished differences by looking at it. This thesis is trying to show personal understanding about art, philosophy and discourses surrounding them and to figure out how Dante opened a new world to art criticism by using new definitions such as ‘end of art’ and ‘philosophizing art’ which Danto used to explain inner aspects of art.

Ⅰ. 들어가는 말   
Ⅱ. 철학과 예술   
Ⅲ. 예술판단의 준거   
Ⅳ. 개념과 감성   
Ⅴ. 예술과 유희   
Ⅵ. 나가는 말   
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