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Ideas y Valores

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LINAN, JOSÉ LUIS. Representation, Concept, and Formalism Gadamer, Kosuth, and the Dematerialization of the Artwork. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2009, vol.58, n.140, pp.197-216. ISSN 0120-0062.

Joseph Kosuth's arguments for supporting Conceptual Art take for granted, and merely invert, the very categories of Formalism which are the critical target of his proposal. That is due to a narrow notion of truth, understood as adequatio or as (formal) tautology. A subjectivist and internist conception of the work of art is an unexpected consequence of this view. A different conception comes out if we follow Gadamer in adopting a hermeneutic view regarding the identity of the work, which considers the material conditions of its manifestation.

Keywords : Gadamer; Kosuth; conceptual art; artwork; representation; formalism.

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