Beauty and Critical Art: Is Beauty at Odds with Critical-Political Engagement?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jac.v7.27720" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jac.v7.27720</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jac.v7.27720" target="_blank" >10.3402/jac.v7.27720</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Beauty and Critical Art: Is Beauty at Odds with Critical-Political Engagement?

Original language description

Traditionally, beauty is understood as an ability of some objects (artworks included) to occasion in viewers a distinctive type of unmediated/pure pleasure-aesthetic pleasure. According to this common understanding of beauty, political-critical art doesnot seem to raise in viewers the feeling of aesthetic pleasure. Many contemporary critical artists and politically engaged artists deliberately produce an art as unappealing to the senses as possible (their attitude could be called, following Arthur Danto, kalliphobia-""beauty phobia""). Critical art is a type of art which usually does not strike us with beauty at first sight because this ""political art"" usually deals with issues of social injustice and political struggles, rendering contemplation andaesthetic pure pleasure unachievable. Yet, even if beauty, in critical art's case, seems to be a difficult, demanding, and not an immediately recognisable one (mostly because of its unappealing, unsettling look), this does not mean that

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AA - Philosophy and religion

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Aesthetics and Culture

ISSN

2000-4214

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

16 June 2015

Country of publishing house

SE - SWEDEN

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84934925649