Art! In What Sense?

Burçak İSMET Özsoy

Fiscaoeconomia, 2017, issue 3

Abstract: This paper is a critique of the conception of art which is mainly based on Arthur Danto’s definition of art via Hegelian aesthetics. In 1964, when Danto encountered with Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box a renewed era for the definition of art has come. For Hegel one of the most crucial criteria for artwork is its indispensible adequacy between content and presentation. Although Danto as a philosopher is so much Hegelian by the time of modern art there emerges a historical shift within art and this article tries to reveal how Danto departs from Hegel through the philosophical question of what makes any work an art-work. When there renders no ‘bodily’ distinction between content and presentation, there emerges an essential question: According to what one of the Brillo boxes inside a grocery store is just an ordinary box while the other one is such a precious artwork in Soho Gallery.

Keywords: Hegelian Aesthetics; Conception of Art; Danto (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B50 B59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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