VYSOKÉ VERSUS POPULÁRNÍ UMĚNÍ
HIGH VERSUS POPULAR ART

Summary/Abstract: The goal of the article is a systematical enquiry about the conceptual difference between high and popular art, which is directed to the question, on which grounds does this difference operate. There are in principle two different theoretical approaches to the problem in question, which bring two different solutions: the aesthetical one or the sociological one. While some aestheticians (Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Abraham Kaplan, Clement Greenberg, Dwight Macdonald) believe, that the difference between high and popular art consists in different aesthetical qualities of both types of artworks, sociological orientated authors (Pierre Bourdieu, Lawrence Levine) assume, that the distinction is a man-made social construction, which does not reflect any differences in aesthetical qualities of artworks, but serves to reproduction and legitimization of the social inequalities. The goal of the article is an explanation and critical evaluation of the particular attempts to find an aesthetical justification of the difference between high and popular art.

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