Clement Greenberg - Autonomies of Art
Channel: Contemporary Art Fashion Slub Pop Kitsch
Date: 20/10/2018

Art and life as lived can be seen as one and inseparable only when artis experienced sheerly as a phenomenon among other phenomena. Art experienced as art,art experienced aesthetically, "properly," art experienced at what's called aestheticdistance, is not a phenomenon. What else is it then? I can't say because art can't bedefined, or has never been satisfactorily defined. Aesthetic distance means separation, akind of transcendence, if you please. And that word transcendence has gotten sofashionable I use it almost apologetically. Art as art takes place away from life as lived, isexperienced as other than the life-world, to use Donald Kuspit's phrase. And thisotherness is part of art's gift.The determining ultimate intention and end of art, of the aesthetic in general, isqualitative. The only and the final question for art is whether it is good or bad and howgood or bad. This is decided according to a scale of value decided by taste. Taste has todo only inexclusively with the aesthetic, with aesthetic value. And aesthetic value isultimately created by taste.

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