Abstract
The borders of visual art on the eve of the 20th-21st centuries are being extremely expanded both at the empirical and theoretical levels and so is the agenda of contemporary philosophy of art. Is the unprecedented polyphony of discourses a methodological drawback or is it a heuristic opportunity that can help to broaden our knowledge about the essence of art and the notion of a work of art? What is visual art and what is artwork speaking the 21st century language? The study examines the current trends and innovations in the visual arts field and how they can be interpreted. Authors come to conclusion that the times of normative or negativist approaches are over. The plethora of transformations is a value-in-itself and can be seen as a legitimate methodological situation, namely, as a meta-relativist turn. Examples that are presented in the paper deal with different sides of “a work of art formula”: span of discourse, artist, audience, art space, art market, new technologies, etc. Those cases demonstrate the ambivalence of current visual art practices that can be interpreted either as complete negation of the preceding standards or as new discourses that are equally legitimate with the older ones. Meta-relativist approach treats all existing discourses and practices as equally legitimate and thus provides the method to broaden our understanding of the essence of art and definition of an artwork. The study suggests that it is a contemporary tool for further intra- and inter-disciplinary dialogue.
Highlights
Intellectualization of discourse, the social turn in the arts, politics of aesthetics, aesthetics economy, artistic values, aesthetic hierarchism, metamodernism, decolonization, freeportism, ghost museums, zombie formalism, curatorship as fine art, aesthetics of ugliness, everyday about the borders of visual art and the aesthetics, aesthetics of atmospheres, definition of a work of art
We conclude that acknowledgement attention to the significance of various of the expansion of the art field as a key approaches, phenomena and debates, is characteristic of the current state of that the agenda of contemporary things and convention that it is crucial to philosophy of art is quite long and still distinguish between the levels of discourse growing
By the beginning of the 21st century the shifts in the dominant aesthetic principle postmodern agenda has almost exhausted from cosmoanthropic in the Antiquity itself, but remarkably, the older school art to theoantropic in the Middle Ages, practices continue to coexist alongside the to anthropocentric in the Renaissance, most recent trends
Summary
Intellectualization of discourse, the social turn in the arts, politics of aesthetics, aesthetics economy, artistic values, aesthetic hierarchism, metamodernism, decolonization, freeportism, ghost museums, zombie formalism, curatorship as fine art, aesthetics of ugliness, everyday about the borders of visual art and the aesthetics, aesthetics of atmospheres, definition of a work of art. We suggest that cultural property, normative justification, while neither of the existing normative or critique of critique1 All these are names of negativist approaches can be accepted, the bits and pieces of contemporary philosophy polyphony of trends in visual arts research of art and its neighboring fields of study is not a methodological problem if we could terminology and discourses. What this justify it as a legitimate meta-relativist sample list demonstrates, besides drawing turn.
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