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The essay also expands upon Walter Benjamin’s theory of the "aura", (the context and tradition in which an artwork is made that cannot be reproduced) [2] by explaining that removing the art from its original contexts and traditions, while also being produced with precision and accuracy through the mediums of film and photography, that the ...
The essays seek to understand and explain the relatively new movement of nonrepresentational art and defend these pioneering artists attempting to escape from the embraced realism and romanticism movements. [1] The dehumanization of art refers to the removal of human elements from these works, eliminating the content, but keeping the form.
Benjamin presents the thematic bases for a theory of art by quoting the essay "The Conquest of Ubiquity" (1928), by Paul Valéry, to establish how works of art created and developed in past eras are different from contemporary works of art; that the understanding and treatment of art and of artistic technique must progressively develop in order to understand a work of art in the context of the ...
John Dewey offers a new theory of art and the aesthetic experience. Dewey proposes that there is a continuity between the refined experience of works of art and everyday activities and events, and in order to understand the aesthetic one must begin with the events and scenes of daily life.
The idea's most notable proponent is Oscar Wilde, who opined in an 1889 essay that, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life". In the essay, written as a Platonic dialogue, Wilde holds that anti-mimesis "results not merely from Life's imitative instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, and ...
Art is best appreciated and understood in its original historical and cultural context. [68] Following the return of cultural property, the intangible meaning and aspects of that culture also return, this may promote the return of intangible traditions and educate future generations within indigenous communities.
Aestheticians and art philosophers often engage in disputes about how to define art. By its original and broadest definition, art (from the Latin ars, meaning "skill" or "craft") is the product or process of the effective application of a body of knowledge, most often using a set of skills; this meaning is preserved in such phrases as "liberal ...
(April 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message) " Avant-Garde and Kitsch " is the title of a 1939 essay by Clement Greenberg , first published in the Partisan Review , in which he claimed that avant-garde and modernist art was a means to resist the " dumbing down " of culture caused by consumerism .