Abstract
Baudrillard claims that contemporary world is a transparent world characterized by excess, while contemporary art is an obscene world in which the reality is excessive and illusion is deficient. Art has been made entirely deviated from its essence. Therefore, Baudrillard therefore calls for the return of art to its inherent way from "something" back to "nothing," returning to a form of illusion or a form of other-worldness. At the same time, Baudrillard also points out that art as a form has its own destiny, a destiny of seduction. As form of seduction, art should also become a symbolic poetics, a poetics of illusion with an uniqueness and originality and with secret or mystery.
First Page
101
Last Page
109
Recommended Citation
Wan, Shuyuan. 2016. "The Destiny of Art: On Jean Baudrillard's Aesthetic Thought." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (3): pp.101-109. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss3/15
