Is it just a metaphysical turn?
Journal Title: Art Inquiry. Recherches sur les arts - Year 2015, Vol 0, Issue
Abstract
The paper introduces the phenomenological definition of metaphysics in art and out-lines the relationship between metaphysics and 20th century art, suggesting possible "escape from metaphysics," and the reactions to this suggestion within the philosophical turn announcing “the end of art" and within the so-called “metaphysical turn”. As the illustration of those “turns”, the author analyzes the installations of Miroslaw Balka, James Turrell and Bill Viola. The analysis leads to the conclusion about the possible connection of the described works with the various "turns" and to the hypothesis that the methodologies of the “turns” in fact seek to unveil the metaphysics from which art had tried to escape. The metaphysics transcends the various turns. This confirms the philosophical truth that "there is no escape from metaphysics," pointing out at the same time that metaphysics in art cannot be reduced to a "turn".
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Rafał Solewski
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