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Aesthetic consciousness of site-specific art

Regina-Nino Mion(Estonian Academy of Arts)

pp. 349–353

Abstract

The aim of this article is to examine Edmund Husserl’s theory of aesthetic consciousness and the possibility to apply it to site-specific art. The central focus will be on the idea of the limited synthetic unity of the aesthetic object that is introduced by Husserl in order to differentiate positional and aesthetic attitude towards the object. I claim that strongly site-specific art, which is a work of art about a place and in the place, challenges the view that the synthetic unity of the aesthetic object is limited. Moreover, following Husserl’s theory, it becomes questionable whether strongly site-specific art is art at all. I try to answer these objections by explaining how the artist prescribes the appearances and boundaries of a strongly site-specific object of art, thereby satisfying the demand for the limitedness of the synthetic unity of the aesthetic object.

Publication details

Published in:

(2013) South African Journal of Philosophy 32 (4).

Pages: 349–353

DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2013.865098

Full citation:

Mion Regina-Nino (2013) „Aesthetic consciousness of site-specific art“. South African Journal of Philosophy 32 (4), 349–353.