Abstract
The term "utopia" as semiotic discourse pays a crucial role in contemporary culture and art practices. Since the "play" theory raised by Schiller, art has been perceived as a vehicle to escape the reality and a weapon to resist it. Subversion becomes the major form of Art's utopia, especially in contemporary culture: artists try to offset the rotten world with innocent artistic imagination. Utopian alienation or subversion is not the only way that artworks adopt to solve the problem of the imperfect world. By confronting the imperfect reality, art can help us to mature into personhood without being cynical and to take the responsibility for society and human beings.
First Page
190
Last Page
198
Recommended Citation
Fan, Yun. 2018. ""Cultivating Our Own Garden": How Does Art Face the Imperfect World?." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 38, (2): pp.190-198. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol38/iss2/1
