Anestetyka a ocenianie i kategoryzowanie sztuki

Abstract

The main topics discussed in the article include: criteria developed for the evaluation of artistic facts (objects and events); the clash of conflicting traditions of thinking about art, for example perceiving it as an area of creative freedom; emphasis put on the utilitarian and decorative features of art; and socially engaged art. The discussion revolves around the category of helplessness that one has to feel in the face of such a multitude of theoretical approaches to art and blurred boundaries of what belongs in the concept of art. This includes anaesthetics which, next to pragmatic aesthetics, serves as a turning point in the discourse on art that constantly calls for redefi ning the identifi cation fi elds for selected manifestations of art in social reality.