Natural Beauty, Romantic Beauty, the Kitsch, the Vanguard and the Enigmatic Character of the Work of Art in Th. W. Adorno

Authors

  • Juan Ramón Búa Soneira UNED

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.47.2021.22409

Keywords:

Adorno, Aesthetics, Beauty, kitsch, Vanguardias

Abstract

This paper aims to clarify important passages of Th. W. Adorno’s Aesthetics Theory and other texts that follow, in a fragmentary way, the historical course
from natural beauty and romantic beauty to vanguard and kitsch. To do this, Adorno’s reference to Greenberg is taken as the arrival point of the aesthetic discussion established by Kant and Hegel. Also, to conclude, the enigmatic character of the work of art is referred to, which Adorno uses to explain the difficulty of understanding the work
of art from the receiver and listener in their need for mediation between form and content, between the aesthetic autonomy of the work of art and the fait social that is contained in it.

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Published

2021-06-23

How to Cite

Búa Soneira, J. R. (2021). Natural Beauty, Romantic Beauty, the Kitsch, the Vanguard and the Enigmatic Character of the Work of Art in Th. W. Adorno. ENDOXA, (47). https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.47.2021.22409

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No. 47 (2021)

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Papers and Texts

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