![]() Second, Hegel was interested in the evolutionary history of art, and in how the sensuous appearance of the spirit is described by means of the three different stages of art: the symbolic, the classical, and the romantic. ![]() First, less interested in judgments of taste and only in part concerned with what counts as beauty, Hegel’s analysis placed itself in the debate over what counts as art, which arguably became one of the central questions in twentieth century aesthetics. In his Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, Hegel reflects on two central problems in philosophy of art. In Georg Wilheml Friedrich Hegel’s system, art, religion, and philosophy are the three steps of the spirit’s unfolding into self-consciousness. Key WordsĬontemporary art, end of art, self-consciousness, symbolic stageĪrt is the presentation of the Idea in its sensuous form. Art does more than question itself art questions, and challenges, the nature of our perception. ![]() My belief is that an analysis of Hegel’s conditions for the affirmation of art opens the door to a discussion of contemporary artistic trends, a discussion that also takes distance from the (perhaps) abused question of what defines art. This paper proposes an evaluation of contemporary art works in light of some of the concepts embedded in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s symbolic stage. ![]()
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