예술작품의 무한성에 관한 철학적 고찰 - 바움가르텐, 칸트, 하이데거를 중심으로

초록

Some mystique follows an encounter with a work of art that can not be explained simply with words. After an encounter with a work of art, people may experience a significant shock or profound realization. A novel may have significant effects on the consciousness of readers. One line of a poem may change a reader’s life forever. A photograph not only affects many of its viewers but may also change the world. People, however, may also be indifferent to a work of art from time to time. After two people simultaneously encounter a work of art, each may have different understandings of it. Even the same individual may have different understandings of a work at different points in their life. There is no doubt that understanding art is a controversial topic. In today’s world in which aesthetic subjectivism prevails, people generally attempt to approach this issue on the basis of subjective psychological states rather than works of art. However, understanding art through one’s individual aesthetic consciousness is clearly limited in explaining the mystique of art, despite this perspective’s convenience. This approach does not focus on a work of art itself but reduces and understands it based on the appreciator’s subjective ideas. One essential element of understanding art requires an explanation about the unique meanings of a work that are not simply reduced to the subject’s aesthetic experiences. If a work of art is an object of aesthetic experience, it is clearly important to understand it by connecting it to other aesthetic experiences. A work of art, however, contains unique meanings beyond an individual’s aesthetic experiences, which makes it essential to interpret the meaning of a work. This study intended to provide explanations about aesthetic experiences by focusing on discussions about unique works of art that cannot be reduced simply through one’s subjective aesthetic consciousness. Defining the concept of “aesthetic infinity,” which refers to an encounter with a work of art that cannot be defined in a single meaning, this study examined the related ideas of art philosophers since the birth of aesthetics.

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