Од ведре сликовности ка модерни и постмодерном опозиву имагинарног
From Happy Imagery towards Modernism and Postmodernist Cancellation of the Imaginary

Summary/Abstract: In the following text the author questions the transformation of imagery, following its development from modern history to contemporary history. That transformation is followed by an insight into its impact on the development of art and by an awareness of the existence of after modernism, but it is not clear if and how that after will permanently reflect on the development of art. The unquestionable materiality of the conditions of postmodern is in an affirmative manner given in poststructuralist theories which express a happy cynical agreement. Although the previous forms of western art are revealed in a more transparent manner within the postmodernist radicalised perspective, western art itself still deals with the conditions within which the structural centre of art is moved from imaginative impulses towards performative impulses, i.e. with the transition from deep construction to a new kind of superficiality of the operational occurrence. However, the following question arises: what is then the art’s attitude towards the important postmodern distinctiveness which is a part of industrial simulation of the eventful and experienced? If we want to make the relationship between art and industrial simulational realities closer, it is necessary to pay attention to its psychosocial functioning. By questioning possible stimuli for art, examples from literature show that it can cope with the postmodern scene through revealing wens and commonplace imaginary scenarios in our life’s worlds.

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