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What Happened to Beauty? The Transformation of the Means of Defining Art from Ancient Greece to Present
Abstract
Beauty, which can be regarded as the most deeply rooted legacy of the history of the philosophy of art, has been an important concept in philosophical debates for centuries. The history of beauty is also the history of a culture's view of art. The fact that this concept has maintained its place in philosophical debates is largely due to the fact that the concept has evoked many different concepts since its first use, the ambiguity of the concept and the difficulty of reaching a consensus on what is beautiful. It is possible to understand the importance of beauty in defining art by determining how the meaning of beauty has changed in the historical process. In order to clarify the studies carried out on the issue of whether it is possible to define contemporary art through beauty, it is an important starting point to determine what kind of differences have occurred in the view of beauty since Ancient Greece. Since beauty, which has been at the centre of art since Ancient Greece, was not seen on the stage of history until the end of the 19th century, there is no need to think otherwise. From the 18th century onwards, Kant added the concept of the sublime to the concept of beauty as a means of defining art, and in the following century, names such as Schiller, Hegel and Rosenkranz began to enrich this concept with the concept of the ugly, but these attempts did not lead to a striking change in the idea of evaluating works of art through beauty. The effect of these new concepts is that the dominant view of beauty becomes more flexible. However, with Modernism, artists create works that cannot be explained by the concept of beauty and with Contemporary Art, beauty turns into a phobia (calliphobia) in time, as Danto puts it, which leads us to ask the question of how we can evaluate today's art. Wittgenstein's idea that art cannot be defined through adjectives such as beautiful, pleasant, etc. plays a major role in this question. It is no longer possible to explain today's art only in terms of beauty in a pluralistic, free, complex art World, in which the boundaries between work and reality have disappeared. In the entire article, the issue of how contemporary art can be evaluated by scrutinizing why and how this transformation process has taken place is examined.
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Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Contemporary Philosophy
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Betül Yıldırım
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0000-0001-9494-9142
Türkiye
Early Pub Date
December 24, 2024
Publication Date
December 31, 2024
Submission Date
October 3, 2024
Acceptance Date
October 27, 2024
Published in Issue
Year 1970 Volume: 7 Number: 2
APA
Yıldırım, B. (2024). Güzele Ne Oldu? Antik Yunan’dan Bugüne Sanatı Tanımlama Aracının Dönüşümü. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 7(2), 148-163. https://doi.org/10.47948/efad.1560988
AMA
1.Yıldırım B. Güzele Ne Oldu? Antik Yunan’dan Bugüne Sanatı Tanımlama Aracının Dönüşümü. KMU EFAD. 2024;7(2):148-163. doi:10.47948/efad.1560988
Chicago
Yıldırım, Betül. 2024. “Güzele Ne Oldu? Antik Yunan’dan Bugüne Sanatı Tanımlama Aracının Dönüşümü”. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 7 (2): 148-63. https://doi.org/10.47948/efad.1560988.
EndNote
Yıldırım B (December 1, 2024) Güzele Ne Oldu? Antik Yunan’dan Bugüne Sanatı Tanımlama Aracının Dönüşümü. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 7 2 148–163.
IEEE
[1]B. Yıldırım, “Güzele Ne Oldu? Antik Yunan’dan Bugüne Sanatı Tanımlama Aracının Dönüşümü”, KMU EFAD, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 148–163, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.47948/efad.1560988.
ISNAD
Yıldırım, Betül. “Güzele Ne Oldu? Antik Yunan’dan Bugüne Sanatı Tanımlama Aracının Dönüşümü”. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 7/2 (December 1, 2024): 148-163. https://doi.org/10.47948/efad.1560988.
JAMA
1.Yıldırım B. Güzele Ne Oldu? Antik Yunan’dan Bugüne Sanatı Tanımlama Aracının Dönüşümü. KMU EFAD. 2024;7:148–163.
MLA
Yıldırım, Betül. “Güzele Ne Oldu? Antik Yunan’dan Bugüne Sanatı Tanımlama Aracının Dönüşümü”. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 7, no. 2, Dec. 2024, pp. 148-63, doi:10.47948/efad.1560988.
Vancouver
1.Betül Yıldırım. Güzele Ne Oldu? Antik Yunan’dan Bugüne Sanatı Tanımlama Aracının Dönüşümü. KMU EFAD. 2024 Dec. 1;7(2):148-63. doi:10.47948/efad.1560988
