Aesthetics and anesthetics. The future of the work of art

Esthétique et anesthétique. L'avenir de l'oeuvre d'art

Alain Patrick Olivier (1)

1 CREN - Centre de recherche en éducation de Nantes

To think the future of the work of art is to think a situation within art is radically called into question, a situation marked by the " end of art history ", by the possible disappearance of the " work of art ", i. e. in a situation where it becomes possible to say: " there is no work of art ". The concept of art is thought in a non-historical, in a teleological perspective. This implies: 1° to call into question the frame of the art history inherited from the aesthetics or the frame of aesthetics as a historical science; 2° to grasp the concept of art in an " anaesthetic " form, where categories of aesthetics are put into brackets in a therapeutic perspective.

Domaines: Philosophie

Alain Patrick Olivier. Esthétique et anesthétique. L'avenir de l'oeuvre d'art. Etudes Germaniques, 2009,  256 (4), pp.751. ⟨10.3917/eger.256.0751⟩. ⟨hal-03041474⟩