Vol.2, No 7, 2000 pp. 175 - 189
UDC 820.01
TO SERVE ART OR THE SYSTEM:
ON MISUSE OF CRITICISM AND TRIVIALIZATION
OF ART
Petra Mitić
Faculty of Philosophy, Niš, Yugoslavia
Abstract. This paper is about different strategies the patriarchal
system has been using to diminish the power of art and make art promote
the ideology of the masculine-oriented culture. The author makes use of
several examples: a play by Howard Barker, Shoshana Felman's analysis of
the critical readings applied to a story by Balzac, and Sallie Goetsch's
discussion of some modern productions of the Oresteia. The focus is on
different ways in which criticism has been misused, and different forms
in which art comes to the audience, its subversive power already neutralized.
The author proceeds to refer to the famous and still controversial essay
on interpretation by Susan Sontag in order to consider the possibility
of conceiving a critical discourse whose power will not be that of mastery
or repression, but of true liberation.
O ZLOUPOTREBI KRITIKE I TRIVIJALIZACIJI
UMETNOSTI
Rad se bavi načinima kojima je patrijarhalni sistem, u svojim istorijski
različitim pojavnim oblicima, do sada gotovo uvek uspevao da marginalizuje
umetnost i stavi je u službu vlastitih ideoloških interesa. Na primeru
drame Hauarda Barkera, analize jedne Balzakove priče i savremenog izvodjenja
Eshilove Orestije, razmatraju se načini zloupotrebe kritike i različite
forme trivijalizacije umetnosti. Autor se zatim osvrće na još uvek kontroverzni
esej Suzane Zontag "Protiv Interpretacije" da bi preispitao mogućnost koncepcije
jednog drugačijeg kritičkog diskursa koji ne bi služio represiji već istinskom
oslobadjanju.
