Add to ORKGThis paper will evaluate the value of bad art, calling into question the function of aesthetic experience as defined philosophically, psycho-socially and ethically. We shall find that bad art serves an important artistic and aesthetic, social and economic role in our globalized modern culture. We shall also find the exponential growth of bad art as a symptom of the modernist myth of progress and commercial determinism, wherein \u27the market\u27 and methods of display exert an unprecedented influence on art production and art reception. Additionally, similarities will come to light between the art of our time and that of other post-industrial eras of decline, revealing the hidden neurosis of the modern individual. Ultimately, we shall prove...
In matters of aesthetic appreciation, we all have our “guilty pleasures”, those moments when we feel...
For a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the "Isn't that disgusting" stra...
The fine arts can be described as in a state of crisis, manifest in the tendency for style to fragme...
This book explores the place of art in the modern world, but instead of asking what art is, it begin...
Aesthetic value and good taste usually go hand in hand. A person with good taste is, typically, some...
In his description of the Kitsch movement Odd Nerdrum distinguishes between Kitsch and art. This art...
Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art wh...
The second half of the 20th century - culture and art theory diagnosed the crisis of Western civiliz...
What seems to suggest various avant-garde and artistic experimentalism movements from futurism to cu...
Art, developing for a long time according to the logic of emancipation towards a deepening intellect...
Our current relation to beauty is contradictory. On the one hand, artists, in the wake of the calami...
How do you make sense of a work of art that makes no attempt to represent something in the world? Si...
My project, Contemporary Non-objective Art, is a practice-led investigation into the dominant narrat...
Experiencing aesthetics and aesthetic experience has, for a long time, been perceived as the purpose...
In 2010 three psychology professors at the University of British Columbia wrote a paper for the jour...
In matters of aesthetic appreciation, we all have our “guilty pleasures”, those moments when we feel...
For a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the "Isn't that disgusting" stra...
The fine arts can be described as in a state of crisis, manifest in the tendency for style to fragme...
This book explores the place of art in the modern world, but instead of asking what art is, it begin...
Aesthetic value and good taste usually go hand in hand. A person with good taste is, typically, some...
In his description of the Kitsch movement Odd Nerdrum distinguishes between Kitsch and art. This art...
Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art wh...
The second half of the 20th century - culture and art theory diagnosed the crisis of Western civiliz...
What seems to suggest various avant-garde and artistic experimentalism movements from futurism to cu...
Art, developing for a long time according to the logic of emancipation towards a deepening intellect...
Our current relation to beauty is contradictory. On the one hand, artists, in the wake of the calami...
How do you make sense of a work of art that makes no attempt to represent something in the world? Si...
My project, Contemporary Non-objective Art, is a practice-led investigation into the dominant narrat...
Experiencing aesthetics and aesthetic experience has, for a long time, been perceived as the purpose...
In 2010 three psychology professors at the University of British Columbia wrote a paper for the jour...
In matters of aesthetic appreciation, we all have our “guilty pleasures”, those moments when we feel...
For a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the "Isn't that disgusting" stra...
The fine arts can be described as in a state of crisis, manifest in the tendency for style to fragme...