Hughes, Fiona (2021) The Temporality of Contemporaneity and Contemporary Art: Kant, Kentridge and Cave Art as Elective Contemporaries. Kantian Review, 26 (4). pp. 583-602. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s1369415421000467
Hughes, Fiona (2021) The Temporality of Contemporaneity and Contemporary Art: Kant, Kentridge and Cave Art as Elective Contemporaries. Kantian Review, 26 (4). pp. 583-602. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s1369415421000467
Hughes, Fiona (2021) The Temporality of Contemporaneity and Contemporary Art: Kant, Kentridge and Cave Art as Elective Contemporaries. Kantian Review, 26 (4). pp. 583-602. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s1369415421000467
Abstract
This article contributes to understanding of Contemporary Art and of the temporality of contemporaneity, along with the philosophy of time more generally. I propose a diachronic contemporaneity over time gaps – elective contemporaneity – through examination of Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic, the Third Analogy and the concept of ‘following’ among artistic geniuses; diachronic recognition and disjunctive synchronicity discoverable in William Kentridge’s multimedia artworks; as well as non-chronological temporal implications of superimpositions in late Palaeolithic cave art suggesting ‘graphic respect’. Elective contemporaneity shows up complexity in relations to past and present, putting in question definitions of ‘Contemporary Art’ restricted to either chronology or supposedly definitive paradigms.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Kant; temporality; contemporary art; elective contemporaneity; graphic respect; William Kentridge; cave art |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2021 10:39 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 16:36 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/31897 |
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