From Kant to Fry: From Trascendental to Figurative Formalism

Authors

  • Paula Lizarraga Gutierrez Author Universidad de Navarra

Keywords:

formalism, art theory, Einfühlung (empathy), Sichbarkeit (visibility), Roger Fry.

Abstract

This article creates a line of continuity from the proposals in Kant's Critique of Judgement to the theory of art developed in the beginning of the twentieth century. Art creativity has exploded, art practice is changing so fast that theoretical thought is incapable of dealing with such a challenge. It is then peremptory to seek an explanation of the new formalistic and abstract trend in art found in the concepts of Einfühlung or Sichbarkeit, which take on some Kantian ideas such as "game of faculties", "free beauty" or even "adherent beauty", a starting point in showing a formalism which inevitably turns its back on idealism.

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Published

2015-05-19

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Research Articles

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