Dijalektika identiteta moderne i postmoderne umjetnosti
The Dialectics of Identity of the Modern and Postmodern Art

Summary/Abstract: If the notion of identity is considered in the Hegelian sense as the experience of the consciousness about itself, then this notion becomes of key importance in reflecting upon the 20th-century (visual) art. Modern art, in Hegel’s view, transcends the possibility of an adequate expression of its spiritual content by its merely sensuous representation (that defines it as such) and hence calls for a reflection on its notion. Since art has always been both part of and about reality, the questioning of its own notion goes hand in hand with the ontological problematics. The epistemological changes that constitute both Modernism and Postmodernism thus reflect themselves in the dialectics of the notion of modern and postmodern art. According to some authors, such dialectics is determined by important changes which took place in the theory of the subject, in cultural differences as well as in technology.

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