Authors: Arthur C. Danto
What his final thought as an artist was, of course, is impossible to say, but I like to think that it has to have been about two dishes, one empty, the other full of our daily soup, warm, hot, filling,
tasty, like the answer to a prayer. The two paintings together reveal his calling as an artist. He is
grateful
for the daily bread asked for in the Lord's Prayer. Meanwhile, he was in terrible pain from gallstones, for which he knew and feared that he would soon require an operation. The trip to Milan for the Last Supper show had been physically agonizing. The second and last death struck him on February 22, 1987, at New York Hospital. He died peacefully and to the surprise of everyone.
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philosophy of art and,
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abstraction,
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Advertisement
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aesthetics,
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Agnelli, Gianni,
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Alloway, Lawrence,
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Amayo, Mario,
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Andy Warhol Enterprises,
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Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes
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Andy Warhol TV Productions,
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Armory show of 1913,
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art criticism,
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art (general discussion): concept of,
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conceptual experiment in,
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cultural revolution in,
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art world (curators, dealers, critics, buyers, artists),
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death of painting and,
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of Europe,
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1970s,
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view of Warhol's work,
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“Art World, The” (Danto),
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Atkinson, Ti-Grace,
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Avedon, Richard,
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Beckmann, Max,
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Berlin Wall,
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Bidlo, Mike,
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Bischofsberger, Bruno,
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Black Mountain College,
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Blondie,
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Blow Job
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Blum, Irving,
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Bockris, Victor,
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Bowie, David,
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Brancusi, Constantin,
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Brandt, Willy,
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Cabanne, Pierre,
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suicides of,
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in Warhol's television show,
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Cézanne, Paul,
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Chelsea Girls
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Cinecitta film studio, Rome,
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civil rights,
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Clemente, Francesco,
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Clift, Montgomery,
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Coca Cola
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Colacello, Bob,
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Coltrane, John,
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Columbia University,
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Comfort, Charles,
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Warhol, Andy: as commercial artist
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Conversation, La
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Coplans, John,
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Correggio, Antonio da,
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