Relation to the world· Aesthetics
Creation
Axis: Nature of art — Does art imitate reality, or does it create something radically new?
Art does not copy the world: it brings forth forms, visions, and worlds that did not exist before it. The artist's genius lies in the power of invention, not in faithfulness to reality.
Movements 1
Romanticismexplicit
Art ceases to imitate nature in order to create it: the work springs from , that original power which does not receive its rules from without but gives them to itself. Against classical and the canons inherited from the age of Enlightenment, Romanticism makes a creative faculty and the artist a kind of second creator. Originality becomes the supreme value, and the work the expression of a unique inwardness.
Coleridge, Biographia Literaria · Novalis, Fragments
Philosophers 1
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Heideggerinferable
rejects the idea that the work reproduces a particular being: the temple represents nothing, it brings a world about. Yet this is not the invention of genius: decentres the artist in favour of the work, which "founds" a truth. Creation, for him, is an event of coming-to-pass rather than a making.
The Origin of the Work of Art (written 1935-1936, publ. 1950)