´The better form´ - Josef Albers´s Idealistic Concept of Art Reveals its Socio-Cultural Function

Art Style: Art and Culture International Magazine 2 (2):30-55 (2019)
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Abstract

With the aim of teaching and practicing art for the good or moreover the better, Josef Albers proves to be an idealist. At the same time, he confirms with this conviction that art can also arouse the opposite. This conviction is already evident in the grammatical form of the term, which proves that art is functional or a technique for socio-cultural applications, whether good or bad. In the presentation of the political and philosophical background of this idea as well as in the analysis of Josef Albers´s ´artistic research´ on the artistic means as cultural techniques, this assumption is to be proved by the essay.

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Martina Sauer
Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Semiotik

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