Sztuka "gorszenia", czyli o zgorszeniu jako doświadczeniu dzieła

Abstract

The experience a work of art may rise different reactions, especially in the sphere of postmodern artistic practice. The art not only delights, but often provokes, offends and causes scandals. That aspect of the process of experience the art is a fundamental problem of the article’s discussion. These contemplations are not delimited to works of the modern art, however it also applies to the traditional art, after all it is easy to notice that the scandal is not only associated with what is contemporary. The analysis of the problem also shows the variation of these issues and emphasizes that the experience of offence is the result of the interplay of many factors, including the practice of interpretation and contextual determinants. In other words, not only the content and form of artistic communication, but also the contextual background co-decide about work’s cultural identity and its possible realisations and, what is more, co-define the way of art’s existence for the recipient. As a result, the experience of scandal seems not to be only a feature of a product or project, but it emerges as an interpretive concretization of its presence in the area of cultural reality.