The dissolution of the work of art

Abstract

The so-called avant-garde art made a radical question about the traditional concept of art, particularly, about the concept “work of art”, about its relation to the “truth”, about the institution of “art” considered as an outstanding and different sphere from the “life world”, about the way in which “art autonomy” should be understood. In this sense, much has been said about the disappearance of the border between fiction and practice, about the “estetization of reality” (Wellershoff), about the “estetization of the life world” (Schulze). One of the extreme consequences of this divorce is the transformation of the work of art into an empty place, a mere horizon of expectations. Nevertheless, today it is known that art created after the avant-garde art from the beginning of this century has restored and broadened the concept of work of art. Thus, aesthetic thinking needs to reestablish an extended concept not only of the work of art, but also of the whole aesthetic phenomena, in which production, critics, reception, work of art and its aesthetic experience, art and the life world are found, and in which their reciprocal relations are shown.