The author considers aesthetic thinking of George Santayana to be closely interconnected and knotted with his philosophical attitudes and at the same time with his art production (novel, poetry). The author suggests that his production (philosophical, aesthetic, literary, social, and political works), in spite of diversity of his ideas, can be characterized by continuity. She proves by evidence that Santayana’s thinking has not changed during his production despite the fact that he has used different approaches or terminology or style, medium. She points at the development of his thinking, shifts of opinions and ideas, which he has had on beauty, art, and life. She points out that his own ontological philosophical system has been developed gradually from his youthful aesthetic ideas. The author considers Santayana’s aesthetic thinking, especially his concept of “aesthetic experience” to be inspiring source for contemporary aesthetic and philosophical theories.
The paper reveals a view point of G. Santayana on avant-garde, which has been created at the same time as his philosophical and aesthetic conceptions came into existence. Although he was poet and many papers devoted to studying of poetry he has been interested in all kinds of art. When creating his own philosophical-aesthetic conception he paid attention to ancient art – especially Greek art. However, he was able to make contribution to contemporary art as well. His opinion was interesting as usually, full of unanswered questions, but at the same time he offered answers, which has an impact on contemporary art, aesthetics, and theory of art. He tried to apply the theory of poetic of work of art on a visual work of art, especially works of avant-garde. He made an attempt to explain the avant-garde works of art according to language of poetry. At the same time he offered opinion on avant-garde as a movement.
The paper deals with the possible parallels between Heidegger's aesthetic thinking and aesthetics of the Bauhaus art and design. The authors examine to what extent could philosophy of given period interfere with the development of modern art, while exploring and analysing different theses of theorists who have expressed on given subject. Heidegger wrote three key texts (Das Ding 1950, Bauen, Wohnen, Denken 1951, Die Frage nach der Technik 1954), which embraced the theory of design. The authors of the paper examine to what extent Heidegger theses could have an impact on contemporary product design.
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