The art experts To determine, if necessary, the authenticity of a work, it is recommended to refer to a qualified expert. The latter can be an art historian specializing in a given period, an auctioneer, a gallery owner or an … Read More
Reenactment, literally defined as “historical reconstruction”, is a method of recreating certain aspects of a past event, a historical period or a specific way of life. The resuscitation of the past through physical and psychological experience occurs through body-based discourse. … Read More
Performance art is developing in Europe and the United States and many movements, such as Fluxus, are gaining an international base. In Europe, it was undoubtedly after his trip to Japan, from September 23, 1952 to January 1954, that Yves … Read More
Performance art is believed to be rooted in the radical Futurist and Dadaist soirees of early 20th century Europe. Others situate its beginnings in connection with the questioning of modernist visions in the 1960s and 1970s marked by political protest … Read More
Wittgenstein and conceptual art (The Wittgenstein House (Haus Wittgenstein), Vienna, designed by Ludwig Wittgenstein himself and the architect Paul Engelmann, a pupil of Adolf Loos.) Ludwig Wittgenstein can be considered one of the founders of analytic aesthetics, his predecessors within … Read More
Chinese aesthetics (Buddhist temple in the mountains, old copy after Li Cheng.) Chinese art has a long history of evolving styles and designs. In ancient times, philosophers were already discussing aesthetics. Confucius (551-478 BCE) emphasized the role of arts and … Read More
The objects of aesthetics are also approached by certain new disciplines of the human and social sciences, thus enriching the search for new theoretical and methodological approaches. Aesthetic sociology (Two viewers of art, at the Musée d’Orsay. Gustave Courbet: L’Origine … Read More
(A pair of Van Gogh’s shoes, the subject of Heidegger’s commentary in the text on the origin of the work of art (1935).) Appearing in the 20th century, these are the main movements of contemporary aesthetics. They are part of … Read More
Kant (Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).) Kant is said to have given aesthetics its autonomy as a proper domain of art, but in reality autonomy concerns only the “aesthetic subject” and is related to knowledge and morals. Transcendental aesthetics in the Critique … Read More
A fake is an imitation of an original work of art, which is not presented as a copy, or an original work of which an attempt is made to attribute authorship to an artist who is not the author, and … Read More
(Fontaine, by Marcel Duchamp, 1917. The analytical aesthetic is constructed from a reflection on conceptual art and pop art.) Analytic aesthetics is a philosophical stream that emerged in the 1950s in the English-speaking world, which particularly studies notions related to … Read More
Authenticity in art means a genuine, unadulterated art. Authentication is the separation of the genuine from the false, the separation of the unadulterated from the forged. Authenticity in art is close to the concepts of “real,” “originality”. Usually, the meaning of authenticity remains unclear unless it is known … Read More
