Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 25 No. 4, 2005.
Original scientific paper
ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ART IN THE WORK OF IVAN FOCHT
MLADEN LABUS
Abstract
The article places its interest on basic characteristics of ontological approach to art in the work of Ivan Focht, one of the greatest aestheticians and ontologists of art. It consists of four essential themes in his thought. The Truth and Being of art introduces us into central Focht's „vor-stellung“, into his (theoretic) ontological procédé, with a question: 'What is the being of art?'. Modern art as ontological problem discusses the themes of ontological issues of modern art and its changed (ontological) status in the Being of contemporary world; the artwork is no more Schein (illusion) but Sein (meaning of Being) and it knows the meaning of being by making it. The Essence of Literature challenges ontological presuppositions of literary work (and also literatur in itself), as an issue of special ontology of artwork (with specific ontological structure and its subject) – its ontological „landscapes“, its place among other artistic forms and in modern art. The part Essence of Music confronts itself with „secret of music“; the question 'What is Music?' is one of the most complicated questions which were asked by philosophy of art. In the music, says Focht, is the hidden answer to the question on the secret of art itself.
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2465
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Publication date:
15.12.2005.
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