Devastation of the Inner State as a Consequence of the End of Culture – A Sociological Discussion on Art

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This work is based primarily on sociological, anthropological and aesthetic theoretical aspects of postmodernist culture. The focus of the work is on the critical consideration of culture as a senseless creation that indulged the most primitive forms of existence such as rigid individualism, narcissism, fatalistic love of materialism and money. The main value of postmodernism is certainly money, which as a result creates a new culture, a culture of absurdity and contradiction.

On the other hand, the work critically reflects on the role of art in postmodern sphere. Art becomes activist, subversive and extremely provocative! At least at the peak of postmodernism, works of art are treated as a vision of social tragedy - a speech about the truth. That in the end she herself would become what she mocked and criticized, which confirms the thesis that in postmodernism everything is artistic and that artistic does not even exist.

Finally, this paper takes for analysis the art installation from the 1960s by an almost intentionally forgotten American artist - Ed Kenholz, entitled State Hospital, which truly impressively gives its visual exposition of postmodern everyday life and reality.