Vitality of art. Modern manifestations. Analytics

The book develops a new concept of “vitality of art” for the philosophy of art and art history. A similar look is extremely important: after all, to assess the height of modern works of art, the classical concept of catharsis cannot always be used. The works showing an existential impasse, the processes of “divided”, “scream and crush of strangled flesh”, are extremely wounded by a person. The hypothesis of the authors of the book consists in the fact that today a more accurate assessment of the work is the concept of vitality of art, which in its volume exceeds the concept of catharsis.

A comprehensive analysis of the concept of vitality of art, a new peering into the incentives of modern creativity undertaken by the authors of the collective monograph , they will help answer the question: why for a person today it is vital and such an art that demonstrates doom, compression, decay. That is, art, which critics often try to hastily enroll in the category of “anti-human”.

on the material of fine art, music, literature, cinema of the XX-XXI centuries. For specialists and a wide reader interested in the fate of art.