著者

尼ケ崎 彬

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美學 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.38, no.1, pp.1-12, 1987-06-30

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Modern art, being not understandable for normal eyes, compels us to change the definition of "fine art." Now "art work" is "anything which is requested to be seen as an art work" rather than "the result of poiesis." We may say that fine art is the production of some aesthetic meaning on some object mediated by man's intentional action. There are some ways of mediation : making or replacing an object, claiming to see an object beautiful, etc. An aesthetic meaning can't be recognized without the peculiar "eye" for it. If an artist discovers a new type of aesthetic meaning, it always requires a new type of eyes to see it. Modern art has constantly stepped outside of the established aesthetic meaning system and developed new ones. Some artists are mainly interested in the liberation from their own intersubjective institutions by means of a sort of Verfremdungseffekt, which leads them to treat all sorts of established meaning system, not confined within aesthetic. Others are incessantly developing new style of aesthetic meaning which are difficult to understand with established eyes. They don't want spectators to fully understand their works, but to try to create ad hoc eyes and meanings for them. Because they know well that an aesthetic quality will lose its power when it becomes understandable.