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Conceptual Art and its relationship to aesthetic value
Liborová, Noemi ; Kubalík, Štěpán (advisor) ; Dadejík, Ondřej (referee)
The question of the aesthetic value of conceptual art is one of the complex problems of aesthetic research, especially due to its diversity and ontological elusiveness stemming from dematerialization and the absence of the medium, as well as its frequent proclamatory anti- aestheticism. A wave of interest was sparked in 2009 by the study Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art by Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens. The authors were the first to attempt a comprehensive philosophical-aesthetic analysis of conceptual art, in which they also put forward their own bold hypothesis about the nature of this phenomenon. Their notion of the Idea idea, in which they tried to find the core of all conceptual art, lies in aesthetic idealism. Their approach has inspired other scholars to polemic, and thus prompted several other studies on the subject. The first part of the thesis is devoted to the key characteristics that define conceptual art and that are central to a theoretical grasp of the problem of its aesthetic value. Dematerialisation, ironic self-reflection, anti-definitional characteristics, its anti-aesthetic and intellectual nature are thus the starting point for the second part, which is an attempt at an independent analysis of the problem. The latter begins with an attempt to critique the notion of the...
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