Sztuka jako interpretacja. Z problemów dyskursu artystycznego
Art as interpretation. From the problems of an artistic discourse

Author(s): Ryszard Solik
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: A standpoint presented in the book questioning an objectivist-essentialist understandingof a work of art typical of a formalist and modernist aesthetics. At thesame time, it criticizes autonomy, closeness and stable definition of an artistic production,and, independence from the context and receivers. “A myth of a work ofart for its own sake”, allegedly able to self-define its specificity and identity thanksto substantiality, was replaced with a perspective of contextual entanglements, inthe structure of which “artisticness” is being negotiated and construed, and notdefinitely defined and fixed. As a result, interpretative practices and discursiveprocedures constitute the centre of proposed considerations. This is a consequenceof the assumption that they constitute not only the context co-deciding about theexperience of art, but the substantial way of concretization of a work of art in thecultural reality. A constituting dimension of interpretation is thus connected withnot only the newest projects and enterprises, often of a “hesitant identity” requiringa comment and absorbing context resources, but an art as such, independently ofthe shape and type of its historical manifestations. Thus, art cannot exist for itsown sake, but only through its interpretations.

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