Arthur Danto's work has always affirmed a deep relationship between philosophy and art. These essays explore this relationship through a number of concrete cases in which either artists are driven by philosophical agendas or their art is seen as solving philosophical problems in visual terms. The essays cover a varied terrain, with subjects including Giotto's use of olfactory data in iThe Raising of Lazarus ichairs in art and chairs as art Mel Bochner's Wittgenstein drawings the work of Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, and Robert Irwin Louis Kahn as Archai-Tekt and visual truth in film. Also featured are a meditation on the battle of Gettysburg and a celebration of the Japanese artist Shiko Munakata, an essay that is partly autobiographical.br br Arthur C. Danto is one of the most original and multitalented philosophers writing today, a thinker whose interests traverse the boundaries of traditional understandings of philosophy. Best known for his contributions to the philosophy of art a