Odnos antropologije i umjetnosti u djelu Rajmunda Kuparea

• Main Author: Marko Vučetić
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Zadar 2018-06-01
• Series: [sic]
• Online Access: http://www.sic-journal.org/ArticleView.aspx?aid=512

This article discusses the relationship between anthropology and art in the philosophical work of contemporary Croatian philosopher Raimundo Kupareo. Anthropology is the study of man, and art is the study or manifestation of human presence. Man is a being of value that connects mysticism and rationality, knowledge and emotions, idea and matter, anthropology and art. The possibility of a touch between anthropology and art allows for the avoidance of dichotomous tendencies of separation between art and anthropology, works and authors. The artistic process, viewed from anthropological positions, is the process of rise and resurrection of the artist as the author and his/her work as a particular value. The author has been legitimized in the world as a being that conceives different ideas and is able to express them in matter, while his work has been publicly presented as a true, human value without the predetermined exclusivity of belonging to someone. That man presents a value, the same as a work of art, implies that the importance of artwork has been recognized through anthropological laws, in the same way that the value of man has been recognized through art. The article focuses on the artistic process as an existential process opening a man towards another man and his world. So, art and anthropology eliminate the alienation tendencies of man to become an ontologically, metaphysically, aesthetically, existentially, and culturally closed being.