PHILOSOPHY OF ART
PHILOSOPHY OF ART
PHILOSOPHY OF ART
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THE POWER <strong>OF</strong> THE INTANGIBLE<br />
‣ Art can let one feel what is intangible, what one<br />
cannot grasp.<br />
‣ Lyotard argues that that is the task of art.<br />
‣ The sublime, according to him, is the evocation of<br />
the present time and what cannot be grasped with<br />
language.<br />
‣ Just when one tries to express it in words, it<br />
vanishes.<br />
‣ Lyotard refers to an essay of Barnet Newman: The<br />
Sublime is Now (1948).<br />
‣ He argues: “That here and now there is an image,<br />
than rather nothing, that is the sublime”.
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