Term
Art
used in 103 texts across the archive
“The scene of art is a supplement or direct replacement of the ritual scene, with the art object or happening at the center and the audience at the periphery. The art scene, then, enacts an oscillation between itself and the center, as a site of distribution and modeling of needed practices. So, all art works within, that is, imitates, and displaces some discourse on the center—ritual, myth, prayer, public discussion, interactions in the royal court or, in the modern age, the disciplines scientific, pedagogical, bureaucratic, journalistic, etc., along with privatized modes of self-regulation like diaries and letters.”
In use
“The materials of art are the materials of other areas of life, which also use colors, shapes, surfaces, words, sounds, etc.”
“The scene of art is a supplement or direct replacement of the ritual scene, with the art object or happening at the center and the audience at the periphery.”
“The separation of art from ritual coincides with the same disruption of sacral kingship that produces politics and the problem of the “tyrant.” It’s therefore not surprising that central to the first works of art is the problem of the tyrant and usurpation of the center more generally.”
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