La guerra del arte. Ignorancia culpable

Abstract

Drawing   on   the   art   avant-­‐‑garde   of   the   early   20th   century,   I

intend  to  argue  that  no  ideology  (understood  as  a  particular

world   view),   could   resign   to   assume   the   real   consequences

(social,   economic,   political)   which   result   from   the

application   of   their   aesthetic   values;   and   if   it   did   so,   this

would   be   an   aestheticistic   ideological   stance   (now

understood   as   means   to   distort   and   conceal   reality).   Such

aestheticism   is   a   virus   that   spreads   with   amazing   and

dangerous   rapidity,   annulling   the   rational   mechanisms   of

analysis   and   evaluation   of   the   social   (and   personal)   reality,

appealing   directly   to   passions   and   feelings   rather   than   to

pondered  rational  decisions.