Adorno's Dark Thinking about Contemporary Art
Subject Areas : Philosophy
Keywords: Adorno, Art and Aesthetics, Capitalism, dark thinking, culture – industry,
Abstract :
Adorno is the thinker that affected by Kant and Hegel. Of course he established his Aesthetics whit critical viewpoint. First domain of his Aesthetics is dark thinking and pessimistic about Modern art and postmodernity that appears with paradoxical form. We account all of event that happened as contemporary art. Examples of Adorno's pessimistic namely is mass culture industry that affected by rationalism, commodity, reification, idolatry that all of them continued to our time. We analyze contemporary art whit ignorance of distance between modernism and postmodernism in continuous and integrated linear. Adorno has a liberation Aesthetics idea about Art but his viewpoint was privative. In Adornos ideas, domination of capitalism and politics was cause of lack of authentic function of Art, which imposed suffering to human. Certainly the reason of Adorno's defends of Avant-garde Art is that kind of art not following mass culture, and not surrounded by politics and capitalism.
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