Visual Arts History 2191F/G Lecture Notes - Boris Groys, Modern Art
15 Dec 2012
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Kant says that art should give something to the viewer (a pleasurable experience) - modern art does not do that. Aesthetic reflections on art began in the late 18th century artists were the minority, spectators the majority. Today everyone has the ability to be the artist, the maker, and spectator. The making of aesthetic appealing objects is so easy to do now that it can be done by anyone not just an artist. With the disappearance of a defined artist there is a disappearance of defined art. Poetics, mimetic and other ancient concepts of fine arts have come back and pushed aesthetics to the side. Social media- everyone has a self-fashioned identity. Autopoetic practice = social media acts as a type of modern poetics (creating a public persona as commodity) Plato believed in taking time to appreciate art (poetics) but until now, because of kant, we have put poetics aside for aesthetics.
