Art of Crisis: Modern or Postmodern?

• Main Author: Valentina Hribar Sorčan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singidunum University. Faculty of Media and Communications 2013-06-01
• Series: AM: Art + Media
• Subjects: art of crisis, modernism/modernity, postmodernism/postmodernity, contemporary aesthetics
• Online Access: http://fmkjournals.fmk.edu.rs/index.php/AM/article/view/34

According to the last book of Peter V. Zima Modern/Postmodern (2010 modernism/modernity, postmodernism/postmodernity is once again a subject of reflection in contemporary aesthetics. It attempts to examine those concept not only in artistic, stylistic way, but also from the other points of view: historical, political, social, ideological. I would like to reveal a thesis that a distance of last decade or two we recognise that we are more and more from the spirit of postmodernism/postmodernity and that we open some problem once again that modernity had in the centre of its reflection: identity of subject, sense of existence, the feeling of crisis: the art of crisis. Does it mean a return of some points of modernism/modernity? I will try to answer to this questions by inviting to a discussion also other contemporary thinkers (Jean-Luc Nancy, Alain Badiou, and Jacques Rancière).