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SYNOPSIS
Art - as well as other words still used today - will have to be re-thought
and labelled in a different manner. "Art" has experienced
a "mutation", no longer corresponding to what was designated
by the word since its "invention" in the Renaissance. Modern
developments seem to have reached an end. Therefore it is difficult
to say what "art" will be in the future - even the immediate
future - and what it will correspond to.
The epistemological break is due to several factors: Post-Modernism offered a wide range of formal and aesthetic proposals; the loss of artistic occidental "stock" had to be re-newed in terms of objects and subjects; artists, more or less consciously, accepted the laws and customs of the market.
These so-called "objective" criteria for value are replaced by parameters linked to subjective decisions such as those of the curator, the interest in entertainment phenomena and the consumerism of cultural events. Also responsible for the change are the new technologies and the opening up of the economy to global and geographically diverse influences which, of course, are welcome but smack of the neo-colonialism they represent.
The author does not succeed in the endeavour to name an "unknown art". Perhaps fond of seeing deep changes in civilisation today and paradoxically happy about the changes art has experienced, he is pleased with recording and discussing the symptoms.
Ramon Tio Bellido
Paris
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