THE ROLE OF CULTURE IN SHAPING AESTHETIC TASTE AND ATTITUDE
THE ROLE OF CULTURE IN SHAPING AESTHETIC TASTE AND ATTITUDE

Summary/Abstract: It appears it is vital to return to the subtle and complex issues of the aesthetic discourse under the current circumstances, in which people are reduced, often against their better judgment, to a pragmatic existence, out of culture, out of spirit, contaminated by tediousness and folly. While intellectuals are denouncing the worrisome features of popular culture and postmodern artists are building a self-referential hermetic world within an art they see as autonomous, the general public is in the position of being unable to take part or even being excluded from the area of culture and authentic art. The specialization of scientific and philosophical language, the declaring of art as either autonomous or “dead”, the emergence of a puerile daily imaginary, the turning of folk art into kitsch, the syncretic occultismus - of any kind – proliferation, here are just some of the causes generating the current gap between elite and popular culture.

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