Autonomous Art
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Adorno's Aesthetic Theory as the Critique of Art in Society
Twana Abdulrahman Abdullah, Azad Hama Abdulla
Although Adorno's philosophy represents more critical theory, but "Aesthetic theory” includes a broad view of criticism in many different fields, especially criticism of art, education and sociology. Adorno's critical view of art makes many contributions to contemporary argument, specifically his critique of art in modern and capitalism society. This investigation attempts to interpret art as critique of modern and contemporary capitalism society from Adorno's perspective, which is a focus on art criticism of society and then autonomous art as a strong alternative for alteration, with the rejection of traditional art and nonautonomous art. The study seeks to answer the following questions; what are aesthetics and autonomous art? Then, art as critique of modern and capitalism society with an interpretation of the culture industry and how to look at art, which is explained throughout the study in light of Adorno's philosophy.
Volume 8 · Issue 3 · September 2021Masoud Muhammad and Theodor Adorno on Art: A Comparative Study
Nabaz Samad Ahmed
A comparative analysis of two great thinkers who are placed in different geographical, social, cultural, and intellectual contexts is a difficult task. Masoud Muhammad a Kurdish Philosopher and Theodor Adorno, a German philosopher, are belonging to two different cultural and intellectual traditions but it can be argued that the core of their philosophical views and analysis on art are thematically connected and astoundingly close. Muhammad and Adorno are doing the same thing, but at a different level, context, and different methods regarding art. They both lived during the dark times of totalitarian regimes: Nazism and Ba’athism in Germany and Iraq respectively. In this paper, I will propose to show that it is possible to establish similarities between the philosophical views of these two thinkers based on three presuppositions. First, both Masoud Muhammad and Adorno’s point of departure is the criticizing Marxist art theory. Second, for Muhammad art is a social fact, and not an imitation of society’s reality, since art is the self-expression of the artist; Also for Adorno art is a social fact and in the meantime, it is independent from society. Third, in Muhammad’s view, art is autonomous and free; therefore it would not be affiliated with any ideologies. In the same manner, Adorno argues that art is autonomous and critical to society. The forgoing illustrated that these three presuppositions set the tone for the theme and hypothesis of this paper. The main goal of this paper is to examine the similarities between Adorno and Muhammad's philosophical views concerning art.