Profesjonalizacja wolności. Swoboda artysty w sztuce współczesnej

• Authors: Sztabiński Grzegorz

Title variants

EN

The Professionalization of Liberty: Artistic Freedom in Contemporary Art

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The history of art is often discussed in connection with broadening the scope of artistic freedom. Such an approach is founded on the assumption that freedom is a constant, transhistorical value which may be increased or limited depending on social conditions. Invoking Boris Bernstein’s views, the author challenges this approach, which allows him to consider the singular features of freedom in contemporary art. He argues that these features are delimited by emphasizing the opposition between broadly understood totalitarianism and liberalism. Postmodernist thinkers have transferred these issues from the area of politics to the domain of culture, which has resulted in detecting a variety of freedom restrictions. As an example, the author discusses the views of Richard Rorty who opposed the model of cultural liberalism (based on scientific patterns) to „poeticized culture” (characterized by randomness, irony and individualism).

Keywords

EN

contemporary art; artistic freedom; Boris Bernstein; Richard Rorty

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Estetyka i Krytyka
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 17-18
• Pages: 11-32

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

Sztabiński Grzegorz

• Uniwersytet Łódzki
• Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Łodzi

Identifiers

ISSN

1643-1243