Breaking Resemblance: The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art

"Contemporary art history" refers to research from the 1960s to today, the breakthrough of the modernist assumption brought by new avant-garde artists, and the continuity of contemporary art in conceptualism and subsequent practice It reflects. Conceptual practice The most important art history organization in the United States is the University Art Association. It organizes an annual conference and publishes art bulletins and art journals. Similar organizations exist in other parts of the world, as well as specialized fields such as architectural history and art history in the Renaissance era. For example, in the UK, the Art Historian Association is the best organization and publishes a journal called Art History.

Using Hegel's theory of purpose, Dant broke the history of art into a series of stages. At the imitation stage, art imitates nature, it is replaced by various styles of struggle until the mid-nineteenth century created by Impressionists, and before the latter stage of history ("the end of art history"). Danto's main argument in this article is that in contemporary circumstances, only art experts related to many institutions can distinguish between art and non-art. He believes that aesthetics has become a field of perfect autonomous knowledge.

"The sanctification of art" is done in a method of appropriate religious discourse in art and aesthetics. Neither Buxton nor Schusterman noticed the influence of traditional religious discourse on contemporary art and art criticism. American critic Jason Farrago also gave a brief overview of "sanctification of art" by applying religious terms to the practice of art and art. In his article why is the museum a new church? He analyzed the way the museum was built to remember the church and thought of the unevenly distributed museum as a modern pilgrimage.