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Accomplishment of the Unfinished

Author(s): Arzu Parten Altuncu
Subject(s): Architecture, Visual Arts, Aesthetics
Published by: Sanat ve Dil Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Keywords: Unfinished; Passages; Sagra da Familia; Tatlin;

Summary/Abstract: Art is a complex structure that which we can experience time and space in a versatile way, which contains numerous revolutionary information and enables us to perceive the world with different approach and with different experiences and let’s us to develop new affections and thoughts.This structure, in itself, consists many series of actions that involve competence and assertion on its own, although they are connected to one another, such as thinking, imagining, designing, producing and revealing.While the claims and effects of these actions processes and serve’s the end result, they are not only processes that can be achieved with the aim of getting results. In this respect, the accomplishment of an artwork cannot be regarded as a design output and cannot be equated with the work being finished. However, in Contemporary Art, the sponsoring organizations which provide’s capital support, and organize major projects, international exhibitions, and festivals demand similar result-oriented outputs in different fields within art. This study aims to discuss this issue through the examples of the Antoni Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia, Walter Benjamin’s Passages end Tatlin’s Tower from the Avant-garde Era, by forming a background upon unfinished artworks in the world where productions accelerated dramatically as a result of the Industrial Revolution.

  • Issue Year: 9/2020
  • Issue No: 66
  • Page Range: 217-225
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Turkish