The Aesthetic of Art: a Mediation of the Sublime

David M. Atkinson

Chapter 5 in Thinking the Art of Management, 2007, pp 107-125 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The process of art that I have advanced in defining CTA is simply one method by which we might begin make sense of the work of a certain type of individual, the artist, in reaching a plausible knowledge of their view of our social world. In a general sense, the social world becomes the object of the Artist’s art.68 Here I make the broad assumption that the social world exists as a complex set of phenomena (for example real and imaginary things, concepts and ideas and their inter-relationships) and that CTA allows for the portraying of a plausible knowledge of it through an aesthetic realization of social facts concerning these phenomena. However, in a particular sense, I am also concerned with gaining an Art-aesthetic understanding of specific phenomena that represent the subset of the social world delineated as the sub-universe of management and organization. Within this subset, I have posited a key premiss that the totality of the phenomena and their relationships constitutes a managerial burden of complexity and ambiguity. Intuitively, the totality of this burden is great enough so that it tends to the axiomatic that — to an individual’s contemplation — many phenomena and relationships remain unknown or even unknowable. I therefore argue that many social facts lie outside an individual’s primary modes of perception. Here, in its totality, I label the sub-universe of management and organization as a sublime environment.

Keywords: Tacit Knowledge; Social World; Social Visibility; Aesthetic Sense; Craft Skill (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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