El fin del arte (Arte contemporáneo nº 18)

by Donald B. Kuspit, Alfredo Brotons Muñoz (Translator)

En El fin del arte Donald Kuspit sostiene que el arte ha llegado a su término porque ha perdido su carga estética. El arte ha sido sustituido por el «postarte», un término inventado por Alan Kaprow como una nueva categoría visual que eleva lo banal por encima de lo enigmático, lo escatológico por encima de lo sagrado, la inteligencia por encima de la creatividad. Remontando la desaparición de la experiencia estética hasta las obras y la teoría de Marcel Duchamp y Barnett Newman, Kuspit sostiene que la devaluación es inseparable del carácter entrópico del arte moderno y que el antiestético arte posmoderno constituye su fase final. A diferencia del primero, que expresaba el inconsciente humano universal, este último ha degenerado en una expresión de estrechos intereses ideológicos. Como reacción a la vacuidad y el estancamiento del postarte, Kuspit señala el futuro estético y humano que traen los Nuevos Viejos Maestros. Amplio e incisivo repaso del desarrollo del arte a lo largo del siglo XX, El fin del arte señala a las artes visuales el camino hacia el futuro.

Genres: Art, Philosophy, Theory, Nonfiction, Art History

160 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2004

About the author

Donald Kuspit is an American art critic, poet, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and former professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts. Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics.

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 1 out of 5]

I wasn't sure if I should give this book one star or five.

I greatly enjoyed Kuspit's utterly fascist standpoints on the avant-garde as well as the regression to absurd 19th century justifications for abstract painting in a world where it seems completely outdated and thoroughly irrelevant. His sweeping over-generalizations addressed towards artists like Duchamp (whose work Kuspit clearly cannot wrap his head around) had me rolling on the floor.

Something tells me that he meant for this book to be taken seriously though.

[Curtis Anthony Bozif · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned that Kuspit's kind of craby and Duchamp was probably gay or impotent.

[Deniz Cem Önduygu · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a fine book, on the condition that it's put in a time-machine and sent back to the 1910s.

I consider myself oldschool because I still favor Mondrian and the American Abstract but I really had to struggle mightily against Kuspit's narrow-mindedness in order to finish the book. Although I agree with him on some of his conclusions about post-art, I am mostly terrified about how he gets there.

His almost religious enthusiasm, charming at first, gets very tiring towards the end of the book. All the mystical and repetitive talk of spirituality, transcendence, feelings, inner reality and the like starts to ring like a bad sermon after a while. It seems he has serious trouble with any intellectual/rational approach to art. His Freudian attack on a brilliant guy like Duchamp was bad enough, and he completely lost me when he reduced all modern art (including Mondrian and Malevich) to a "cult of the unconscious".

[Cristina Manuela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Muy interesante hasta que el hombre es pesao' como sopa de chumbo.

[James Alfred · Rating 5 out of 5]

7 stars if I could. Brilliant.

[Ania Kołodziejczyk · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mam wrażenie że ta książka mogłaby być o połowę krótsza i wyszłoby jej to na korzyść, mocne 2½

[Hulya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Günümüz postmodern sanatının anlaşılması için kaynak kitap olarak okunabilir. Duchamp ve dolayısıyla dadaistlerle başlayan sanattan umudu kesme, sanatı teori ve kavramlardan ibaret görme, sanatın kutsallığını reddetme ve sanatın yapılış amacını unutma bugünkü postsanatın temellerini atmıştır. Bunun sonucunda sanat günlük yaşantının bir aynası olmaktan öte geçemeyerek kitlelerin oyuncağı haline gelmiş ve en sonunda da iyice aşağılanarak paranın hizmetine verilmiştir. Sanat herkesin anlayabileceği kadar günlük olmuş ve her günlük şey gibi sığ kalıp dakikalar sonrasında unutulur hale gelmiştir. İşte kitap bu entropiyi anlatıyor. Popüler dünyaya bakış açınızı sorgulatacak bir kitap. Sanat şemsiyesi altında popüler dünyaya eleştirel bir bakış...