National University of La Plata

Master in Aesthetics and Theory of Arts

The program proposes to study contemporary aesthetic conceptions in their possible relations of continuity or break with aesthetics from modernity in the context of current artistic manifestations. In this sense, it can be affirmed that the most important difficulty that these manifestations pose, when modifying productive and receptive experiences, is that they put more or less traditional categories and classifications of aesthetic theory in crisis. Performance, installations, bodyart, bioart, graffiti, videogames, series, among others, have the consequence that the concepts of work, author, receiver and the established value judgments are often incompetent to account for them. In such a way that the multiple forms of the contemporary make art today withdraw from attempts at theoretical demarcation. This crisis of aesthetics, on the other hand, cannot be separated from the context of capitalism and the main cultural and philosophical crises since modernity. However, it is also possible to include ruptures within the very logic of the artistic insofar as, especially since modernity, the demand for originality for art entails a cyclical questioning of established theoretical categories.