Between Aesthetics and Culture Studies
To the Methodological Problems of the Modern Science of Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22040469 |
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| Authors | N A Khrenov (0000-0002-6890-7894, Institute of Art Restoration, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 56-77 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Art & Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-0072 • E-ISSN: 2226-0072 |
| Publisher | Federal State-Financed Scientific Institution State Institute for Art Studies (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.51678/2226-0072-2022-2-56-77 |
| OpenAlex | W4281774129 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article discusses the methodology of interdisciplinarity in scientific cognition by the example of the relationship between art studies, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The author focuses on art studies currently functioning in its mature form, usually referred to as “normal science” in the philosophy of science. It is in need of development and improvement through the assimilation of methods of other humanities and philosophical areas, such as hermeneutics, phenomenology, and ontology. The attitude of art historians towards this trend is highly ambiguous. Their priority task is connected with maintaining the status of the individual and subjective element in art. Meanwhile, the assimilation of methods of related sciences often shifts the scientists’ interest to the sphere of non-authorial art, in which the role of clichés and genre techniques is great, and the skill of the creators and the artistic perfection of the work are no longer considered the highest values. The relevance of this article is related to the modern processes of integration of various areas of the art research. As the history of science develops, it becomes characterized by the processes of differentiation of scientific disciplines, trends, paradigms, and concepts, and the processes of integration. Integration corresponds to those states in the history of science when a new paradigm develops into a universal and authoritative one, preventing the pluralism of approaches. Differentiation is consonant with those states in science when the paradigm is still unstable and the universal paradigm has not yet emerged. Analyzing the external and internal factors of the development of the science of art, the author comes to the conclusion about the primacy of the internal ones. This implies the need to promote the theory of art, which still remains less developed than other subdisciplines of art studies
Aesthetics · Art methodology · Contemporary art · Epistemology · Human science · Linguistics · Perfection · Scientific progress · Sociology · Transdisciplinarity · History · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Philosophy · Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry
| Highly cited | No |
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