Title: Contemporary Art; Its Definition and Classification
Abstract: To answer fully the question “What is contemporary art?” we cannot avoid going a somewhat round about way, and answering the wider and more general question, “What is art?” The mere problem where lies the boundary between art and craft and whether there is such a boundary and so a real difference between them at all is itself difficult to answer. I am afraid that we shall fare like this with almost any question in the field of art that we approach for closer inspection. What is easily comprehended by feeling, demands to be given shape or to be defined, that is to say a mental process in which logic and comparative experience must play their part—in so far as the phenomenon lends itself to rational treatment at all. For there certainly are phenomena in the realm of art which elude all rationalization, and which can be grasped only by meditation, that “submergence” which is the mode of knowledge for the mystic. Comparative experience is however only possible on an historical basis. The formation and reforma...
Publication Year: 1951
Publication Date: 1951-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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