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The Nature and Concept of Meta-artistic Objects

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Benjamín Valdivia

Professor, Art, Architecture and Design, University of Guanjuato. E-mail: valdivia@ugto.mx

 Volume 13, Number 4, 2021 I Full-Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n4.03

Abstract

This paper introduces two concepts useful for the understanding of current trends in art. One of them is the concept of meta-art, which is proposed here because of the perception that contemporary art goes beyond the traditional borders of art, transforming the aesthetic question (is it beauty?) to a more ontological question (what is it?). Diverse elements are identified at the borders of artistic expression, as the question starts to implicate the changes caused by the notion of the meta-artistic. The second concept deals with the other main category of judgement of art, which was formerly defined by beauty, and yet now gets displaced in the limits of the meta-artistic by another process that we call aesthetic impact. This given pair of theoretical instruments help in a better understanding the astonishing objects developed by the artists of our time.

Keywords: aesthetic impact, beauty, contemporary art, fragmentation, Meta-artistic, end of art.

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Everyday Aesthetics in Indian Cultural Communities

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Tapaswi H M

Assistant Professor, Dr. NSA Memorial First Grade College, Nitte, Karkala Taluk, Udupi District, 574110, tapaswi.hm@gmail.com, 0000-0002-6867-6088.

Volume 11, Number 3, October-December, 2019 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.14

Abstract

In India the concept of “folk culture”, “folk literature”, “folk art form” and other forms of many indigenous folk cultures seem to be considered not aesthetic but quaint, due to the dominance of “classical” art forms which are valued more. One can witness the dearth of qualitative understanding of the experience of beauty in these actions and objects which are not considered as art objects or artistic performances in Indian context. A theoretical perspective which tries to understand these genres and even ritual forms is also rare. In the contemporary academics, many scholars both from the Indian tradition and non-Indian traditions are attempting to understand a different kind of aesthetics that the art forms of these people express. Thus, in this paper, I claim that understanding indigenous art is possible using theories of everyday aesthetics rather than through other special theories of aesthetics. While not arguing for a relative view of aesthetics, this paper uses the ideas of everyday aesthetics and beauty to understand art in folk and cultural contexts in India.

Keywords: Everyday Aesthetics, Symbolic Meaning, Rangoli, imagination, beauty

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The Nature and Concept of Meta-artistic Objects

Benjamín Valdivia Professor, Art, Architecture and Design, University of Guanjuato. E-mail: valdivia@ugto.mx  Volume 13, Number 4, 2021 I Full-Text PDF DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n4.03 Abstract This