1. Lyotard's Account of Avant-Garde Art
... of technique or "respect for rules"(96) but rather a question of "genius or something incomprehensible and inexplicable"(96), Lyotard moves on to the status of works of art. He points that the introduction of the sublime into art disrupts the harmony of the traditional understanding of art, that understanding which can afford a notion of education of art. He ... 's does, because the sublime itself is inexplicable. It is the point where the consciousness cannot reach because it somewhat precedes consciousness. Similar cases of inexplicability happen in many areas of philosophy, even in th...
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