Danto thinks that the development of art history was over in 1964, because Andy Warhol's "Brillo Box" appeared. We can no longer make a distinction between this work of art and the real Brillo Box, which is just a commonplace object. However, the end of art does not mean we cannot make art anymore, nor does it mean that art has lost its value. It just means the concept of art is exhausted. No new style of art can emerge. There is no direction for art history to go on. Danto told us that there are two consequences of the end of art. One is we can find the essence of art and define art in terms of non-manifest properties. The other is pluralism. Danto was influenced by Hegel's view of art history, he used "self understanding of art" to interpret the development of art, and he thought that the development of modernist art is to find out the essence of art. The end of art means that art can no longer understands itself, it should pass this mission to philosophy. In general, I agree with that the interpretation of art history given by Danto, but I think the end of modernism does not necessarily mean the end of art.
