Romantizmo Transformacijos Postmodernioje Estetikoje: Tapatumo Požymiai Ir Ribos
The Transformations of Romanticism in Postmodern Aesthetics: The Signs and Limits of Identity

Summary/Abstract: The article is analyses the concept of romanticism in postmodernism. The article discusses the contradictory views of romanticism in the sphere of visual representation. Transformations of the idea of romantic aesthetics are analyzed by comparing different insights (Charles Taylor, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jerome McGann, Northrop Frye’s, Ira Livingston, Claudia’s Moscovici). These theoretical debates induce one to take a fresh look at the artistic creation process. It is possible to define the tendencies of romanticism, envisioned in contemporary artworks, as the inclination to emphasize visuality, fiction and perceptibility, which is typical of the whole postmodern aesthetics (of the „image culture“). In certain cases, romantic ideas function as a reaction to radical postmodern anti-subjectivity, fragmentation and non-representational attitudes. Though the ideas of romanticists are revived in the shape of postromanticism (especially as reliance upon fictions and images), the inertia of their manifestation is also evident. I.e. the images do not overstep the dictates of institutions and markets, which control the sphere of artistic creativity. The images are transmitted in technically shaped forms; they do not express more versatile meanings. The claim that the non-observation of these limits narrows the understanding of romanticism is expressed in the present article. The meaning of romanticism turns into the declaratively applied label and in its primary provisions forms the deceptive illusion of sameness.

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