Eстетиката – приближаване или отдалечаване от изкуството?
Aesthetics – Getting Closer or Distancing from Art?

Summary/Abstract: The new avant-garde art of the mid-nineteenth century and beyond firmly rejected the old normative aesthetics as inadequate. It effectively addressed the theoretical gap by introducing manifestos and other public creative programs. Suddenly the obsolete aesthetics fell into a deep crisis and was forced to seek – through various new paradigms – a close, immediate contact with avant-garde artistic achievements. The work of art is not a structure frozen in time, but a dynamic process of becoming, of continuous transformation into an artistic fact; this process of becoming has its own autonomous dialectic. The basic question of today’s aesthetics is “How is art made, how does it happen now within time?” Hence the principle consequence is that today the general concept of art is an open concept, it is a concept that is in a permanent process of everyday historical concretization. On this path of theoretical renewal, aesthetic has been moving faster or slower ever since. It cannot exist outside the world of art.

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