Summary
Nikola Dedić: Between the work and the object
The book Between the work and the object: Michael Fried and Stanley Cavel Between modern and contemporary art is based on two levels of analysis. The first belongs to the domain of art history, whose focus is on the analysis of the way in which modern art treats the problem of theater and theatricality, and the analysis of the reasons and ways in which this issue was abandoned by the emergence of contemporary arts. The second level of analysis belongs to the domain of philosophy, and within this analysis the connection between the philosophical concept of skepticism and the historical-artistic concept of theatricality is shown, whereby both concepts concern modernity as an era of epochal, structural crisis. Michael Fried as an art historian, on the one hand, and Stanley Cavel, as a philosopher, on the other hand, analyze this issue from their respective domains. Therefore, this study is a meta-theoretical discussion of Fried's history of art through the prism of Cavel's philosophy of language and vice versa: the book provides an insight into Cavel's philosophy of language through the settings of Fried's historical-art method.
Nikola Dedić
is an art historian and theorist who asks basic questions - what is the ethically acceptable position of an artist in solving "sensitive" issues - that is the difference between "socially responsible" artistic activism and the distant position of documenting social reality. It also explores how art contributes to the deconstruction or reproduction of dominant, hegemonized ideological and cultural models such as racism.
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