Art. and creativity by Theodor adorno etc

1. Theodor W. Adorno In ART and AESTHETICS

2. Brief History  His works  Involvement in Art and Aesthetics Conclusion  References Table of Contents

3. Born in Frankfurt, Germany on September 11, 1903. Initially planned to be a composer but later focused on Philosophy. One of the most important philosophers and social critics in Germany after World War II. He died of a heart attack on August 6, 1969, one month shy of his sixty-sixth birthday. Brief History of Theodor Adorno

4. His Involvement in Art and Aesthetics

5. His Work in Art  Adorno considers works of art as monads, and compares their isolation with the loneliness of the individual in the turmoil of modern life under the weight of capitalism, their withdrawal in their personality and the ideology that turns the misery of alienation into the dubious virtue of a utonomy or of self-sufficiency.

6. Cont'd He Believes  that the work of art and the individual are limited if  the artist, who is closely linked to both, is the ultimate expression of this neglect, as he works with what Adorno called the dialectic of loneliness.  Even so, despite the isolation, social reality will always present itself in his work, whether or not he intends to discuss it in a more or less conscious way, even if he tries to avoid it. 

7. Philosophical Aesthetics? This is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and appreciation of art, beauty and good taste. It has also been defined as "critical reflection on art, culture and nature".

8. Theodor W. Adorno Aesthetic Theory

9. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory marks the unfinished culmination of his remarkably rich body of aesthetic reflections. Written from 1961-1969, it was published just after Adorno passed away .

10. It covers not only the function in beauty and sublimity in art but with relations between art and society.

11. CONT'D His Theory simultaneously reconstructs philosophical aesthetics, especially that of Kant and Hegel, from the perspective of modern art. His book begins and ends with reflections on the social character of (modern) art.

12. CONT'D Adorno regards authentic works of (modern) art as social monads. In a way, we can connect this with video games that has an abstract

13. Conclusion In post-industrial era, new art movements will not appear from art school, institution or gallery. In future, new art forms will arise from the productive part of society: Material and Technology....

14. References  Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis, 1997), p. 1. DORNO, Theodor W. Teoria Estética . [ Ästhethische Theorie .] Tradução de Artur Morão. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1982.