Art Theory

On Otto Mühl and the question of when artist and work can no longer be separated On 10 September, the […]

Part II: Why Does Art Always Have to Be New? “That has already been done.” This sentence, too, has a

Part I: Does Art Get Better – or Just Different? “Back then, at least they still knew how to paint.”

In the previous article on hermeneutics and reception aesthetics, the starting point was a seemingly harmless question: how does the

When we look at a work of art, sooner or later an astonishingly simple question arises: what does it actually

When photography began its triumphal advance in the nineteenth century, many people regarded it primarily as one thing: a technical

Or: Why a handful of young English artists began searching for the roots of art nearly 180 years ago. When

A small warning before we begin. Over the coming months, the Cogitationes will occasionally introduce names you might not expect

On Pointillism and Divisionism, photographic grain, and a reality that only comes into being in the eye When we approach