Stefan Morawski
Forfatter af Inquiries into the Fundamentals of Aesthetics
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Morawski is staunchly critical of postmodernist art and the characteristic stance of its practitioners and eulogists for the conformity and indifference they breed. Postmodernist art stands accused of abandoning the ambitions of modernist avant-garde, its dogged pursuit of aesthetic values, its conscience of responsibility for culture and its social impact, and the emancipatory spirit which informed the work of the avant-garde and spurred it to its highest artistic achievement. Morawski's critique of postmodernist culture is both artistic and political. That culture which proclaimed as its major principles the lofty indifference and disengagement from anything outside the artist's workshop and artistic gallery, cannot but produce mediocre and trivial art-while simultaneously reinforcing the spirit of consumerism to which it has placidly adapted. Postmodernism, so Morawski argues, is guilty of muffling human sensitivity to the tragic complexity of existence, of extinguishing human drive to transcendence and improvement, of elevating hedonistic instrumentality to the position of the highest, and virtually the sole, value.… (mere)