Modernism - an Introduction to the Semester - (4/9)
The Beginning of a Modernist Aesthetic
The philosopher Immanuel Kant in 1770 laid down the philosophical foundation for artistic Modernism
Kant's aesthetic:
- Viewers could and should arrive at similar
- interpretations
- judgments
- to experience the art work in and of itself it would be necessary to
- put aside all
- personal interest
- associational responses
- consider art independently of any
- consider only the aesthetic
- aesthetic judgment should be
- neither personal
- nor relative
ART FOR ART'S SAKE
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