Kritičko-analitički pristup razumijevanju Gadamerovog pojma umjetnosti - Umjetnost kao igra, simbol i svetkovina
Critical-analytical Approach to Gadamer’s Notion of Art - Art as Game, Symbol and Festival

Summary/Abstract: The author’s intent in this paper consists into inquire Gadamer’s notion of art as »actuality of beauty«. As a starting point for it author takes Gadamer’s crucial question: »Is the art of modernity what we really understand as art?«. That what the author wants to explain from the phenomenological and hermeneutical view in defining stand point of this elaborate which tend to clarify understanding of art as »actuality of beauty« and what is considered as pregnant too, is Gadamer’s stand related to evaluation of criteria of art and work of art particularly presented in his philosophical work »Essays about Philosophy of Art«. Where does Gadamer find the criteria presents a question of fundamental significance for this essay. Namely, he finds them in two essentially different but formally very identical cultural and historical areas: in ancient Greek and in modernity. The first step we take in this paper goes toward an explanation of the motifs that stimulated philosophy in general and Gadamer in particular to examine the issue of art as a philosophical theme. The argument of this paper will be presented on several levels. In the first part of it we will argue about general meanings of Gadamer’s understanding and explaining the aim and the roll of the art of modernity. In the second part of it we will be oriented toward understanding of aesthetical dimension of the art, such as an experience of the beauty. In the last part of this paper we will discuss the art as a game, symbol and festival.

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