0 comment
Category
Stock Code
66Y2EAF7MD
25,21 EUR
CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGY ISSUE 71 AESTHETICS
In the modern age, aesthetics has become a word that has evolved from an ideal to a utopia, and it appears commodified and externalized. The ruins of past civilizations - which were a part of daily life in ancient times - are stored under special conditions because they express aesthetic value for modern people. They are tried to be reproduced in museums, exhibitions and special collections so that the imagination that has moved away from aesthetics can provide itself with new ideas. As aesthetics is removed from the reality of life and social denominator and turns into a utopian commodity, our cities and all our living spaces related to it, our daily use tools, our artistic productions, in short, everything becomes mechanized, standardized and moves away from aesthetics. Creating ugly cities and replicated living spaces and being condemned to live in these places makes modern people unhappy.
With the Aesthetics issue, we have brought together many contents that show how imagination unites and separates in the relationship between nature and humans at different times and in different productions in the history of civilization. We can see how civilizations have experienced cultural ruptures through the works or products of artists, craftsmen or ordinary people who search for meaning and try it with reality. Sometimes a new motif adorned on a vessel, sometimes a stance captured in a sculpture or a change seen in an architectural work takes the imagination of civilization to the next level. As a society that has lost its aesthetic values and artistic imagination, why do we destroy works that have survived from ancient times to the present day and are a source of pride for us? Let's think once again about why we destroyed Hasankeyf's aesthetic accumulation and the cultural feast underlying this accumulation with a pile of concrete. It is not too late for Hasankeyf!
Be the first to comment on this product!