ALL CULTURE WAS ART - en legende om det legende

ALL CULTURE WAS ART - a legend of the playing society

Lysgaard, Thomas

4. semester

Anvendt Filosofi, Kandidat

2017

2017-05-31

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Dette kandidatspeciale tager afsæt i mødet med kunstneren Viktor IV’s korte, kondenserede "statements" – især udsagnet "ALL CULTURE WAS ART" – og i John Deweys pragmatiske æstetik i "Art as Experience". Specialet undersøger, hvad der følger, hvis man tentativt tager udsagnet alvorligt, og hvordan det kan belyse forholdet mellem kunst, kultur og opbygningen af et humanistisk samfund. Med Deweys idé om kunst som en ideal erfaring, hvor energier organiseres i orden, rytme og balance, og med udblik til Schiller, udvikles en filosofisk analyse med ontologiske, epistemologiske, etiske og æstetiske dimensioner. Undersøgelsen omfatter en fortolkende nærlæsning af udvalgte "statements" (bl.a. "THE RESPONSIBLE IS THE FREE", "YOU CANNOT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN SOMEWHERE ELSE", "THE TIME IS ALWAYS NOW") indlagt i en komposition omkring "The Kite", samt en drøftelse af Viktor IV som eksemplarisk borger. Den centrale tese, som motivet peger imod, er at kunsten fungerer som kulturens tilførsel af energi og er en forudsætning for, at kulturen forbliver levende, og at værdierne, der muliggør både skabelse og nydelse af kunst, må indlejres i sociale relationer for at understøtte samfundsmæssig opbygning. Uddraget her præsenterer motivation, spørgsmål og teoretisk ramme; de fulde konklusioner udfoldes i specialets senere kapitler.

This thesis begins with an encounter with artist Viktor IV’s concise "statements"—especially the dictum "ALL CULTURE WAS ART"—and with John Dewey’s pragmatic aesthetics in "Art as Experience". It explores what follows if we tentatively take the dictum seriously, and how it can illuminate the relationship between art, culture, and the building of a humanistic society. Drawing on Dewey’s view of art as an ideal mode of experience in which energies achieve order, rhythm, and balance, and with a look toward Schiller, the study develops a philosophical analysis spanning ontological, epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic questions. The inquiry includes an interpretive close reading of selected statements (e.g., "THE RESPONSIBLE IS THE FREE", "YOU CANNOT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN SOMEWHERE ELSE", "THE TIME IS ALWAYS NOW") structured around a composition titled "The Kite", and a discussion of Viktor IV as an exemplary citizen. The guiding claim emerging from this motivation is that art supplies culture’s energy and is necessary to keep it alive, and that the values enabling both the making and enjoyment of art must be embedded in social relations to support societal formation. The excerpt presented here sets out the motivation, questions, and theoretical frame; detailed conclusions are developed in later chapters.

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