
Telmo Ojanguren
Feb 13, 20238 min read
Soap Boxes and the End of Art
As bizarre and unlikely as the title of this article may sound, in the decade of the 1980s American philosopher and art critic Arthur C. Danto claimed that in 1964 some comercial soap boxes had brought about the end of art (Danto, 2010); as it had been known up until that point, art had been terminated. But what made these boxes as special as to possess the ability to bring art to an end? And, for that matter, what exactly does ‘the end of art’ mean? To inquire into this purp















