The artisanal turn as another search for the “lost time” (Proust) by Ukrainian intellectuals and the plane of their representation

UDC 355.01

Hanna Chmil

Institute for Cultural Research of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv.
ORCID ID 0000-0001-6569-1066

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-25-2024-1.25-39

Keywords: artisanal turn, artisan product, experience of time, cosmic artisan, ecology of creativity, relational subjectivity, non-anthropocentric reality, neo-artisan, metamodern.

Abstract.

In the proposed study, the so-called “artisanal turn” is comprehended in the context of the metamodern cultural and philosophical paradigm, the peculiarities of the metamodern situation in philosophy and art. Invoking arguments of domestic authors who study metamodern ideas in domestic scientific thought, their influence on the state of modern culture and art, it is proved that reflections on the peculiarities of cultural and artistic life go beyond postmodernism and require addressing the situation of metamodernity. The overlap in traditional, postmodern and metamodern cultural codes testifies in favor of metamodernity as a cultural stage of the development of society and a philosophical trend reflected by cultural metamodernity in connection with the “artisanal turn” in art. Because this turn is a new look at people, culture, new avant-garde aesthetics, original artistic styles. The metamodern artistic paradigm is a new modality of the transdeductive relationship of people to things and transindividual relationships between people, and a cosmic artisan is a relational subjectivity. Art “returns” to the artisanal age of the sixteenth century Middle Ages, which leads to the deceptive illusion of craftsmanship as a sphere of realization of personal authenticity, both from the point of view of theory and artistic practice, but in this there is more of a modern alchemical minimalism, analogous to the mode of activity of the cosmic artisan described by Deleuze and Guattari with its inherent manneristic virtuosity which was truly new.

The discussion of the issue of the “metaphysics of the artisanal turn”, the return of craftsmanship and mannerism in modern crafts helps artists clarify their place in culture and assert their professional authenticity through created artistic values, and for philosophers the concept of the “artisanal turn” illuminates its main meaning and specific meanings, subjective and objective parameters, a logical and emotional component of a fundamentally new aesthetics of beauty, which was initiated by the surrealism of the 20th century.

Authors Biography.

Hanna Chmil, Director of the Institute for Cultural Research of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Full Member of National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, associate professor, Kyiv.

gannachmil@gmail.com

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Vol 25 No 1 (2024).

Section: THEORY AND HISTORY OF CULTURE.