Nonviolent Aesthetic Synthesis in Art and Society
Explore Adorno's perspective on aesthetic synthesis, emphasizing the nonviolent unity of divergent elements in artwork, capturing truth through contradictions. The synthesis in art is not imposed but emerges from the interaction of elements, embodying otherness and complexity, enabling art to incorporate diverse existences beyond judgment.
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ADORNO: ART AND SOCIETY IV Aesthetic Synthesis
Synthesis Violent unification At all events, from very early on I have always felt a violent antipathy to the concept of synthesis.
Aesthetic Synthesis Organizing principle of artworks Relations of the elements, layers and aspects of the artwork This synthesis itself results from the actual relationship between the individual aspects, while on the other hand these individual aspects are themselves determined by the whole.
Non-violent - it does not do violence to the particular, the suppressed, the nonidentical - unity of contradictory or divergent, chaotic aspects - inherently antagonistic - dynamic and procesual
The synthesis achieved by means of the artwork is not simply forced on its elements; rather, it recapitulates that in which these elements communicate with one another; thus the synthesis is itself a product of otherness. (AT, 7)
It is the nonviolent synthesis of the diffuse that nevertheless preserves it as what it is in its divergences and contradictions, and for this reason form is actually an unfolding of truth. (AT, 143)
[It is the] ambiguous intertwining of these aspects that really permits the work of art to incorporate that very wealth of existent which is otherwise cut off by the logic of judgement. (Aesthetics, 208)
