The aesthetic utopia. From Barthes to Baudrillard
Abstract
This article discusses a working hypothesis that defines the work of art as the theoretical and practical possibility of producing the unknown, in contrast to scientific-technical operations whose mission is precisely to replace it with the known. It is based on a text by Roland Barthes —A Lover’s Discourse: fragments— and then addresses some works by Jean Baudrillard that generously support this hypothesis. The themes evoked are the end of criticism, the symbolic operation and the evaporation of metaphysics, leading to a reflection on the innocence of art.
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