ART AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE CITY. FROM MODERN METROPOLIS TO CREATIVE CITY

• Authors: Ratiu Dan Eugen
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper addresses the relations between art and everyday life in the city from the vantage points of urban aesthetics and sociology, where the “city” refers as well to a normative world. The aim is to show how art/artistic life contributed to the normative change and new urban lifestyles. First, I focus on Baudelaire’s theory of beauty and life in modern metropolis or the city as “poetic object” and dandyism as an art of the self, seen as a crucial normative change: the emergence of new norms of excellence and art of living, such as creativity and self-fashioning. Second, I discuss a recent yet related normative change, described by Boltanski and Chiapello as a passage to the “project-oriented city”, seen as a new way of working and living that fuses cultures of creativity and uncertainty. Third, I tackle the “creative city” hailed by Florida, where the creative lifestyle of “creative people” is the new mainstream setting the norms for society: individuality, diversity and openness, but also impermanent relationships and loose ties. I will argue that extending the hyper-mobile and flexible creative lifestyle from the extraordinary figure of the artist to ordinary people, as everyday urban life, triggers both benefits and risks.

Keywords

EN

ART; LIFESTYLE; CREATIVE CITY; METROPOLIS

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 183 – 204

Contributors

author

Ratiu Dan Eugen

• Babes-Bolyai University, Department of Philosophy, M. Kogalniceanu str. 1 RO-400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5866524