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Against Dualism - Conceptual Art in the Context of Functional-Normative Theory
Brejcha, Michaela ; Dadejík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Skalický, David (referee) ; Ciporanov, Denis (referee)
Title: Against Dualism - Conceptual Art in the Context of Functional-Normative Theory Author: Michaela Brejcha Department: Department of Aesthetics Supervisor: Mgr. Ondřej Dadejík, Ph.D. Abstract: The present dissertation thesis focuses on the problem of theoretical reflection of conceptual art in Anglo American aesthetic discourse in the second half of 20th and the beginning of 21st centuries. It is based on the claim of many conceptual artists and also some theoreticians, which emerged in the nineteen- fifties, that the conceptual art or tendencies have nothing in common with aesthetics or aesthetic theory. This work shows that this presumed discord draws on reduced understanding of what is the aesthetics and, at the same time, this understanding itself is based on the dualistic paradigm, which presents one of the most fundamental frames for our approach to reality. In the context of analysis of selected texts of Anglo American aesthetics, eight particular distinctions of dualism will be defined, which to a great extent contributed to the rejection of aesthetics by conceptual artists, and on the other hand to bad recognition of conceptual art by the aesthetic theory. As an alternative to the dualistic approach in the context of definition of conceptual art, the fluid and dynamic conception of aesthetics...
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Against Dualism - Conceptual Art in the Context of Functional-Normative Theory
Brejcha, Michaela ; Dadejík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Skalický, David (referee) ; Ciporanov, Denis (referee)
Title: Against Dualism - Conceptual Art in the Context of Functional-Normative Theory Author: Michaela Brejcha Department: Department of Aesthetics Supervisor: Mgr. Ondřej Dadejík, Ph.D. Abstract: The present dissertation thesis focuses on the problem of theoretical reflection of conceptual art in Anglo American aesthetic discourse in the second half of 20th and the beginning of 21st centuries. It is based on the claim of many conceptual artists and also some theoreticians, which emerged in the nineteen- fifties, that the conceptual art or tendencies have nothing in common with aesthetics or aesthetic theory. This work shows that this presumed discord draws on reduced understanding of what is the aesthetics and, at the same time, this understanding itself is based on the dualistic paradigm, which presents one of the most fundamental frames for our approach to reality. In the context of analysis of selected texts of Anglo American aesthetics, eight particular distinctions of dualism will be defined, which to a great extent contributed to the rejection of aesthetics by conceptual artists, and on the other hand to bad recognition of conceptual art by the aesthetic theory. As an alternative to the dualistic approach in the context of definition of conceptual art, the fluid and dynamic conception of aesthetics...
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"Art" and its definition. Between function and procedure
Ciporanov, Denis ; Kulka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Haman, Aleš (referee) ; Zuska, Vlastimil (referee)
The thesis explores the problem of definition of "art" as it has been systematically discussed since the second half of the 20th century - mainly in the Anglo-American analytical aesthetic tradition. Despite the complexity and diversity of this discussion, it is possible to indicate two opposite definitional approaches. The first is the so called proceduralism which is established on the conviction, that the art status is connected with certain performative procedures (social, theoretical or historical in character), and that its attribution to an artifact essentially affects its artistic/aesthetic function. The second is a functional strategy, traditional in character, which presupposes on the contrary, that ascription of art status comes always after the indication of functional efficiency of the artifact in question. In four parts of this thesis we want to argue for the superiority of functional view of the concept of art. To do that, we made one exceptional step out of the borders of analytical tradition in order to see how this traditional problem is solved in the theoretical context of Prague Structuralistic School, domain of European functional thinking. The comparison of Jan Mukařovský, the main representative of functional approach to art, with Nelson Goodman, one of the most prominent American...
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