On Tradition and Cultural Memory in Contemporary Art: Theoretical Considerations
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14394/eidos.jpc.2021.0008" target="_blank" >10.14394/eidos.jpc.2021.0008</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
On Tradition and Cultural Memory in Contemporary Art: Theoretical Considerations
Original language description
This paper starts with a detailed analysis of Jan Assmann's qualitative distinction between cultural memory and communicative memory. The purpose of this analysis is to highlight both the strengths and the limitations of this seminal distinction, and to also reflect on what cultural theorists and contemporary artists could learn through Assmann's distinction since artistic production also employs cultural memory formats that do not exclude cultural traditions in their materializations. In line with these considerations, this paper aims to disentangle what "tradition" means to contemporary artists. Following Edward Shils and Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophy of "tradition," the paper argues that cultural tradition does not necessarily have an oppressive character and the rebellion and suspicion against it is at the heart of tradition itself. Thus, the traditional/contemporary binary can be precluded by reconsidering how "tradition" and "traditional" are conceptualized considering philosophy of tradition and artistic memory.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture [online]
ISSN
2544-302X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
5
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
126-139
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85111287120