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- Title
The Temporality of Contemporaneity and Contemporary Art: Kant, Kentridge and Cave Art as Elective Contemporaries.
- Authors
Hughes, Fiona
- Abstract
This article contributes to understanding of Contemporary Art and of the temporality of contemporaneity, along with the philosophy of time more generally. I propose a diachronic contemporaneity over time gaps – elective contemporaneity – through examination of Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic, the Third Analogy and the concept of 'following' among artistic geniuses; diachronic recognition and disjunctive synchronicity discoverable in William Kentridge's multimedia artworks; as well as non-chronological temporal implications of superimpositions in late Palaeolithic cave art suggesting 'graphic respect'. Elective contemporaneity shows up complexity in relations to past and present, putting in question definitions of 'Contemporary Art' restricted to either chronology or supposedly definitive paradigms.
- Publication
Kantian Review, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 4, p583
- ISSN
1369-4154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1369415421000467