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- Title
Sociological Enlightenment of Art: Bodily Technique as the Constructive Foundation of Social Aesthetics.
- Authors
Wei-hsian Chi
- Abstract
A new genre of public art started appearing in western modern countries in the 1990s. This forced modern art to face a new issue: artistic publicity. Public art is more than a new form of art, and it leads us to see that there is a specific reciprocal relation between aesthetic practices and political as well as religious discourses. By examining the semantic lineage of "art" in western modern societies, this paper shows how modern societies understand "art" and construct artistic publicity. In addition, this paper takes Taiwan society as an example for showing that there is still another kind of aesthetic practice in modern society. They are various forms of cultural festivals that are run in a different way than professional art, but both have the same constructive function in social aesthetics. This theoretical discourse contributes to the viewpoint that bodily technique shall be seen as the basic operative medium of social aesthetics.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGY; ENLIGHTENMENT; AESTHETICS; SOCIAL theory; ARTISTIC creation; PUBLICITY; PUBLIC art; MODERN society; WESTERN countries
- Publication
Taiwanese Sociology, 2013, Issue 25, p1
- ISSN
1680-2969
- Publication type
Article