Kosuth - Art after philosophy. The meaning of conceptual art

Foucault - not to limit the meaning to its cognitive core but re-establish its flow at the limit of words and things
For the public, theory developed by the artists is impossible. The artist should express himself through its art. >> artist as a sorcerer Vs intellectual. Also due to the expressionism which was an anti-intellectual movement using the myth of the eroic individualism to sell art valorized by its aura. >> Art as a religious relic, but without a religious meaning. >> Science to fill the gap. New art beyond the limitation of its idea institutionalized by modernism.

art after philosophy

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Traditional philosophy based on the non-said. Analitical philsophy only based on the 'said' because the non-said is unutterable. Heghelian philosophy surpass Hume and Kantian's illuminism, giving the newtonian's mechanic as alternative to religious thoguhts. Evolution of history that accepts Darwin's biology. Solution to the conflict between teology and science. >> But result of philosophers as historians of philosophy, librarians of the Truth >> is nothing more to be said.
But after Wittgenstein is not anymore possible to take continental philosophy seriously.
Is there a motivation to the 'irreality' of contemporary philosophy? Before, conclusions based on available informations about the world (empiricists, rationalists). Philosophy and science togheter. Now we percive the world differently, maybe we know too much and our intellect doesn't permits to trust in traditional philosophy. james janes - philosophy was using congectures from science and not its core capable to get closer to the real nature of reality
XX century as 'end of philosophy and beginning of art' (not litterally but a tendency). Analitical philosophy as heir of empiricism, but it's a philosophy in one gear. Artistic condition was existing as well before Duchamp, but other functions so much showy that they limit the artistic condition. These considerations to analize the function of art and its vitality, and offer insights to understend my art and others + explain the term conceptual art.

the function of art
Judd - inferiority of paintings because progress in art not only from its formal nature. / LeWitt - the idea becomes a machine that makes the art / Wittgenstein - the meaning is the use
/ Copi - functional approach to the study of concepts slowly substitute the introspectic method. Not naked concepts but they work because of their beliefs and judgments / Segersted - Meaning is always a presupposition of function / Von Wright - Key argument of conceptual researches is the meaning of some words and expressions, not things and facts referred to them when we use these words

We need to separate aesthetics from art because it treats the opinion on the perception of the world in general. Before role of art as decoration, so when discuss aesthetics you have to talk also about art. From here idea of a conceptual link between art and aesthetic, but not true. Before use of the art to mask the art. If you consider the aesthetic of an object in an artistic context, you could do it for whatever object, so you are not giving value to the existence of the object in a n artistic context >> aesthetic are not relevant. Similarity to architecture that has a specific function which gives the quality of its drawing. Aesthetical judgments are a matter of taste, and the taste change in the historical period. Always strangers to the function or 'reason to be' (unless purely aesthetic, decoration, formalist art). II
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