Contributions of Kant's Aesthetics to Modern Art Theories
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https://doi.org/10.5380/sk.v23i2.97623Keywords:
formalism, self-criticism, modernism, Greenberg, KantAbstract
Kant’s aesthetics has largely been regarded as formalist within contemporary art theory, due to Clement Greenberg’s interpretation of his idea of self-criticism as presented in the Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason. Greenberg took this concept as a paradigm for modernism, viewing criticism as a process of defining the medium’s own boundaries. This led him to argue that art is modern when it is pure, meaning when each artistic form limits itself strictly to what is inherent to it, without being contaminated by elements from other art forms. This article focuses on the reception of these ideas in the context of the development of contemporary art in the mid-20th century.
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