Idealismos de la forma y apariencias del lenguaje: Continuos estéticos y comunicativos en el arte de Occidente

Abstract

Taking as guiding threads notions of form and language, the author draws a wide temporal and conceptual ellipse that -in a critical way- connects / opposes the classical concept of beauty and its various formal derivations/results/consequences until high modernism, with the gradual emergence of the aesthetics of autonomy and the self-referentiality, as well as with analytical language theories represented by the Wittgenstein´s thought. The reflection of art on itself secularizes it and enhances its communicative aspect as well as its linguistic dimension, and this has given rise both to the modernists implosions -folds on formal and perceptual speculation- , along with the postmodern explosions of a textuality which dissolves the formal frame by overflowing it.