Art and Its Shadow

According to Perniola, in our time, art loses its autonomy and merges into the market and mass communication. It is isolated from its mysterious atmosphere, aura and criticism. So what remains? The shadow of art remains. It is in this shadow that Perniola discovers today's aesthetics and the art of the future. Discusses modernity and contemporaryity. Many philosophers from Walter Benjamin to Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben; Artists from Andy Warhol to Joseph Kosuth and Guy Debord; By scanning filmmakers from Derek Jarman to Wim Wenders, he searches for the possibilities of a contemporary philosophy of art or a philosophical art and cinema. Mario Perniola has paved an important path as one of the most influential theorists of aesthetics of our time. His thesis that the shadow of a work is ahead of that work is groundbreaking. Hugh J. Silverman Today, when we say "audience", we do not mean the narrow elite group of experts and traditional museum visitors that Bourdieu includes in the category of social elite. The respectful, happy minority that followed the religion of art was replaced by a mass of infidels. This is a mass that has an attitude of indifference or outright rejection towards the provocations of contemporary art. A striking cultural disconnect has emerged between contemporary art and a very large section of society. Therefore, the relationship between contemporary art and the audience is no longer based on the desire for appreciation and admiration, but on provocation and scandal. Therefore, artistic value tends to be based on the information and communication market.
-Mario Perniola Cover: Man Ray, Torso, 1923.-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 118

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 118

First Print Year: 2015

Language Turkish