Des images attaquées : la soupe sur les tableaux et le déclin de la contemplation

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB PHILOSOPHIA, LXVIII, Special Issue, 2023 (p. 7 – 33)en-US
dc.creatorANDREESCU, Radu-Cristian
dc.date2023-11-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T10:40:32Z
dc.descriptionImages under Attack: Soup on Paintings and the Decline of Aesthetic Contemplation. In 2022, two cans of tomato soup were thrown over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London by two climate activists. The aim of this paper is not to explain the motives behind the protest in terms of environmental activism, but to address the implications of this phenomenon for the status of artistic images in our time. The protest in question is one of the many symptoms of the fact that images associated with a pure state of gaze have become morally dubious due to a certain moralistic turn in contemporary discourses on art. Consequently, what seems to be lost in today’s movements of moralizing aesthetics, whether in art or in environmental activism, is not only the “aura” of an artwork, but also the idea that the contemplation of beauty in and for itself would provide a foundation for humans’ moral vocation. In a gaseous state of art (Y. Michaud) in which the transient effects of things are more important than their essence, the moralistic tendencies combined with the lack of moral foundations can no longer conceive of the ethical effects of images without explicit moral content, thus calling for a new form of heteronomy in art.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/6662
dc.identifier10.24193/subbphil.2023.sp.iss.01
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/1256
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/6662/6350
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2023 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophiaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia; Volume 68, Special Issue, November 2023; 7-33en-US
dc.source2065-9407
dc.source10.24193/subbphil.2023.sp.iss
dc.subjectKantian aesthetics, ethics, contemplation, natural beauty, autonomy of art, environmental activism.en-US
dc.titleDes images attaquées : la soupe sur les tableaux et le déclin de la contemplationen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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