Art as document: on conceptual art and documentation

Herder and Reappraising Sculpture as Tactile Art

The main objective of this essay is to re-examine the nature of sculpture and its importance among arts via retrieving and studying the relatively neglected importance of touch in the experience of this art. This objective is pursued according to eighteenth-century German philosopher, Johann Gottfried Herder, by focusing on his Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion’s Cre...

Reflections on the Ontology of Mass Art as Avant-garde Art

The aesthetics of “everyday experience” is made by a paradigm that defines the duality of the Elite art/low-class art by focusing on the art of the majority/minority, based on the desire of the urban middle class, It has been put as the art of the people in opposition to the art of avant-garde. The study is based on reflections on possibility of finding the main origin between the art of the ma...

The Art of Conceptual Modelling

ion Theor(Õ) theories about objects LÕ application domain language for objects in the origin Ψ(G) model objectives understood by the user understand map integrate G: model selected by the user Φ(G) properties of the model used for model purpose ⊇ abstraction Theor(G̃) model theoriesion Theor(G̃) model theories LG̃ language for declaration of artifacts

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

Art and Technique as two Different Territory for Dasein’s Being

In Being and Time Heidegger believes that Dasein is the only being who has existence, he also argues Dasein has two existential modes: authenticity and in-authenticity. inauthenticity is usual Dasein’s existence, A way of Being in which Dasein has strayed away of himself and has fallen into the chaos of others. In this way of Being he deals to beings as others do, just in terms of efficiency an...