ART AND MORALITY
In the nowadays acknowledged moral crisis in/of art, a split has occurred between the public and some artistic manifestations. Stuck in the so called “radical actionism” - as the artistic short and violent movement developed by Fluxus Group during 1960-1970, with origins in the “Viennese Actionism”...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press
2014-11-01
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| Series: | Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.agathos-international-review.com/issue5_2/10.Articol%20-%20DORIN%20BABA.pdf |
| Summary: | In the nowadays acknowledged moral crisis in/of art, a split has occurred between the public and some artistic manifestations. Stuck in the so called “radical actionism” - as the artistic short and violent movement developed by Fluxus Group during 1960-1970, with origins in the “Viennese Actionism” -, the art segment dealing with contemporaneity, disputing the traditional art as well as social and moral conventions, has created a new area of expression, in which art and life converge, arising questions that go beyond the aesthetic experience, and managing to introduce an ethical dimension in artistic expression. In a plurality of theoretical and practical concerns, the contemporary art has produced repeated attacks on human dignity or animal life. So, the present art manifestations may include people, animals, corps/thereof parts (human or animal), explicit sexual images, psychological abuses as well as references to self-harm. A balance between art and morality, a good – by responsibility in act - relationship between aesthetics and ethics, finally, might generate a different type of visual art, a creative and clean one, able to opening up some new possibilities of expression for humanity. |
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| ISSN: | 2069-1025 2248-3446 |