autonomous / autonomy

Art is autonomous if it is a self-contained world. Independent. Self-referential?

new -

alternatives - Progression

Nietzsche saw the rise of the 'new' as a dominant value, to be a cause of a cultural neurosis.  

The optimistic faith in progress and an infinite future causing a restless belief that one had missed the best of times.  History changes from being a sequence of events to obtaining an underlying logic, where the present always negates the past, a place of constant transition between the past and future. Leading to the rise of irony, cynicism and the Museum.

 Rampley, Mathew (2000) Nietzsche, Aesthetics & Modernity. Cambridge University Press. 

'My aim is to show that we have entered a period of post-historical art, where the need for a constant self-revcutionization of art is now past." 

Danto, Arthur Philosophical disenfranchisement of Art

origin -

'Origin' doesn't meen 'New'

starting point - 

What is the value of art?  Can art be defined?  

Relationship between theory and practice.

The place of philosophy in art?

Aristophanes- 'the clouds' as a response to philosophy (Plato) in favour of feelings 

shit! -

crap. rubbish. bollocks. doesn't work. dead.

authenticity -

'I don't want it to be essentially the same, I want it to be exactly the same. Because the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away and the better and emptier you feel'  -Andy Warhol

'X is a work of art if and only if (1) X is an artifact and (2) X is discussed in such a way that information concerning the history of production of X directs the viewer's attention to the properties that are worthy of attention'  - Eaton, Mareia Muelder

fine art is not art in the true sense of the term until it is..free’ (Hegel: the philosophy of Fine Art