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I and Thou in the Perspective of the Union with Arts

Author(s): Justyna Żak
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Educational Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: dialogue; I and Thou; artwork; union; solitude; artist; human relationships; artwork as a subject
Summary/Abstract: If we assumed treating the artwork as Thou, that closes with us in one, inseparable expression: I – Thou and not belonging to the world of objects – It, what might be peculiar as we do rarely perceive in that way even other human beings, then in the view of Martin Buber’s philosophy we establish a deep, mutual dialogue relationship between an artwork and a human. Meeting an artwork makes us live in the influence of Art that in unpredictable way teaches us about human virtues. The distance between a man and an artwork enables to reach humanity, but it is also extremely exhausting for us as dialogue participants. The dialogue that is exceptionally difficult and requires sacrifice is the one of an artist with Arts and it results in giving the society the highest cultural good – a work of art. It is preserved by various institutions of culture as the most precious achievement of an era and remarkable testament of the spiritual power of a community, but it is being created in opposition to this community as a result of the very individual perspective – the solitary act of creation. There is a question whether the artwork helps establishing a dialogue with another human being and in what ways it might lead to the world of experience of other people.

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