Art and the problem of theory: Perspectives for verbalization of arts

Abstract

The paper is focused on the analysis of the possibilities of a verbal and theoretical understanding of art, adequate to art itself. On the one hand, this problem is considered with regard to the perspectives of contemporary philosophy of art, and on the other, with regard to art itself. The thesis argues that, starting from itself, art has the possibility to acquire an adequate theoretical articulation of its own domain, which opens effectively the perspective of a new concept of theory. At the same time, the paper presents the thesis that modern philosophy of art can claim its legitimacy only by respecting the autonomy of art and the autonomy of the art's own possibility to develop a theoretical discourse concerning art.