Heidegger and Modern Art

This study analyzes Heidegger`s concepts of truth, world, space and related concepts and establishes a formal, contextual and material method of analysis for the purpose of examining works of art. This new method of analysis is applied to three pieces by the artist Joseph Beuys as a case study.

In this publication, the author attempts to develop an aesthetic theory from Heidegger's phenomenological concepts. She analyzes Heidegger`s concepts of truth, world, space, and related concepts and establishes a formal, contextual and material method of analysis for the purpose of examining works of art. This new method of analysis is applied to three pieces by the artist Joseph Beuys as a case study.

Autorentext

Eda Keskin has been working for years on phenomenology, art history, and the philosophy of Heidegger. With this work, she has earned the academic prize of the "Luther-Urkunde" of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany.

Inhalt

Conceptual analysis Concept of Truth - Concept of World - Concept of Space - Reconstruction:the method of analysis- The application of the method on Modern Art