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Ontologijski prilaz umjetnosti u djelu Ivana Fochta
Ontological Approach to Art in the Work of Ivan Focht

Author(s): Alan Labus
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo

Summary/Abstract: The article places its interest on basic characteristics of ontological approach to art in the work of Ivan Focht, one of the greatest aestheticians and ontologists of art. It consists of four essential themes in his thought. The Truth and Being of art introduces us into central Focht’s »vor-stellung«, into his (theoretic) ontological procédé, with a question: ‘What is the being of art?’. Modern art as ontological problem discusses the themes of ontological issues of modern art and its changed (ontological) status in the Being of contemporary world; the artwork is no more Schein (illusion) but Sein (meaning of Being) and it knows the meaning of Being by making it.

  • Issue Year: 25/2005
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 901-912
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Croatian