SŁABY UNIWERSALIZM
THE WEAK UNIVERSALISM
Author(s): Boris GroysContributor(s): Filip WESOŁOWSKI (Translator), Maria WODZIŃSKA (Translator), Ewa Majewska (Translator)
Subject(s): Aesthetics, Evaluation research, Sociology of Art
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: avant-garde; weak messianism; weak universalism; modernity; Benjamin;
Summary/Abstract: This essay is a discussion of the task of the avant-garde, and it presents it as an implication of Benjamin's weak messianism, as a „weak universalism” – a construction of democratic art. There is a similarity between the art of Malevich, Beuys, Warhol and internet art, which consists in efforts to build a transhistorical art pieces, which contains the conditions of possibility of all art pieces, but which is at the same time accessible to the widest public. This is the translation of the original text published „The Weak Universalism” in e-flux magazine, issue 15/2010.
Journal: Praktyka teoretyczna
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 32
- Page Range: 22-36
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Polish