Meta art

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Meta art is a special form of “art about art”, that is, art that relates to other art. Christoph Zusatz defines meta art as "art about art in a double sense: on the one hand, art that explicitly refers to a certain work, a topos or the institutional environment of art history and, on the other hand, it addresses art on a meta level, in a visual discourse, So it reflects on itself. ”The difference to other and older references consists on the one hand in an expansion of the reference field to include the categories of topos and institutional environment of art history, on the other hand in the self-reflection aimed at fundamental questions of art. Meta art has existed since around 1960, at the same time it is a characteristic of contemporary art. Meta-painting in the sense of Victor I. Stoichitas is a pre-form and prerequisite of meta-art in the historical and phenomenological sense. In his study published in 1993, Stoichita examines “L'instauration du tableau: métapeinture à l'aube des Tempsmodern”, which in 1998 under the title The self-conscious image. From the origin of meta painting in German, the status of the painting in Western Europe between 1522 and 1675. Only after the painted picture had been released from its cultic-religious functions could painting, according to the thesis of Stoichitas, develop a self-image and self-confidence as painting , a process that ends with the modern tableau. Meta painting here means painting about painting, i.e. painting that addresses itself, that is self-referential.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph surcharge: From art quotation to meta art - art about art in the 20th century. In: Ekkehard Mai / Kurt Wettengl (ed.): Competition of the arts. Painting and sculpture from Dürer to Daumier. Exhibition catalog Munich / Cologne, Wolfratshausen 2002, ISBN 3-932353-58-7 , pp. 171–189
  2. ^ Victor I. Stoichita : L'instauration du tableau. Métapeinture à l'aube des Temps modern. Paris 1993.
  3. ↑ Victor I. Stoichita: The self-conscious image. From the origin of meta painting. Fink, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7705-3206-6