Andrew Johnson The End of Art or the Origin of New Art? By Andrew ...
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Sort Desciption: In attempting to explain the graffiti art movement in America .... Furthermore, the unique attributes of the graffiti art movement, the ...
Content Inside: Andrew Johnson 1 The End of Art or the Origin of New Art? By Andrew Johnson Introduction: Graffiti and Post-modernity Art is at a crossroad. How does one analyze the insanity/violence of Artaud, the labyrinths of Borges, the meaninglessness of Duchamp, the symbolism of Dali, the spatiality of Gehry, the significance of Basquiat? However diverse the above examples are, they all retain responses towards the imminent crisis of modern times and what has been labeled, ‘The End of Art.’ Postmodern forms of artistic expression are conscious departures from Modernism, especially when characterized by a rejection of ideology and theory in favor of a plurality of values and techniques. This paper will address the graffiti movement in New York City during the 70’s and 80’s as distinctly Postmodern, and, moreover, as an explicit alternative to traditional aesthetic theory. Using Heidegger’s challenge to aesthetic theory, in “The Origin of the Work of Art,” as the philosophical background in which to emphasize the importance of the graffiti movement in relation to the ‘World-Historical Significance’ of art/society, I hope to illustrate why the reader must, ‘take graffiti seriously.’ The End of Art “Art no longer counts for us as the highest manner in which truth obtains existence for itself. One may well hope that art will continue to advance and perfect itself, but its form has ceased to be the highest need of spirit. In all these relationships art is and remains for us, on the side of its highest vocation, something past.” – GWF Hegel, “Lectures of Aesthetics.” During the 19 th Century European, intellectuals began to take account of their temporal finitude and expose a crisis of modernity. Friedrich Nietzsche exposed the flaws in Western metaphysics and the challenges the future posed to the present. Nietzsche believed that society as a whole was moving towards nihilism and decadence. Karl Marx demonstrated the alienation of the c ...
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