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Bauman’s understanding of Aesthetic Space
Bauman’s understanding of Aesthetic Space

Author(s): Nataša Vilić
Subject(s): Aesthetics, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art
Published by: Naučno udruženje Sociološki diskurs
Keywords: art; space; aesthetics; encounter with other; culture; fluid life;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we will revise the concept of art as a form that demands a physical space in order to encounter the Other and in doing so we will endorse Zygmunt Bauman’s comprehension of aesthetic space. Contemporary artists like Andy Warhol, Jan Fabre and Oliver Stone testify that this physical and aesthetical space represents what Bauman calls the “challenge that labors the knowledge” On that way, contemporary art becomes a “mirror” of life and culture, an image of a “fluid modern era”. Only one thing missing in that image is a distance, which enables us to behold a truthfulness and wholeness of a being.

  • Issue Year: 7/2017
  • Issue No: 13-14
  • Page Range: 69-77
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English