Abstract
The category of emptiness is a paradoxical phenomenon of artistic culture in the postmodern era. It is seen as the absolute, total deconstruction of the image, as a way to go beyond the image, to immateriality. Postmodern artists have created new visual codes and ways of representing meaning, conveying global changes in the era of technological reproducibility and cultural appropriation. The external characteristics of an object are no longer the way to characterise a work of art, even in visual arts. Instead, the conceptual basis, the atmosphere surrounding the work and the aesthetic experience are the main factors. My work contributes to intercultural aesthetics, as well as to Postmodern and Metamodern studies. The analysis is based on a textual analysis of key postmodern texts and a critical reappraisal of leading artworks of the period. Postmodern artists showed attention to the emptiness and the immaterial because of the desire to occupy a religious function. The absence of this function characterizes the era of the death of grand narratives and the end of world wars. Thus, in the era of deformation of cultural foundations, with all the superficiality of postmodernism, paradoxically, many cultural and artistic figures are captivated by emptiness as depth, which is more characteristic of the Modern and Metamodern period, in which an attempt to return to a deep transcendence can be traced.
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Paradox, Artistic Culture, Emptiness, Postmodern, Image Deconstruction, Immaterial, Image
