De Kant a Fry: del formalismo trascendental al figurativo

Abstract

This article creates a line of continuity from the proposals in Kant's Critique of Judgement to the theory of art developed in the beginning of the twentieth century. Art creativity has exploded, art practice is changing so fast that theoretical thought is incapable of dealing with such a challenge. It is then peremptory to seek an explanation of the new formalistic and abstract trend in art found in the concepts of Einfuhlung or Sichbarkeit, which take on some Kantian ideas such as "game of faculties", "free beauty" or even "adherent beauty", a starting point in showing a formalism which inevitably turns its back on idealism.