Matej Tomazin

The Phenomenon and Concept of Art Matej Tomazin

This book explores the nature of art, both as a concept and phenomenon. The goal was to define the artistic experience and give a functional answer to the prevalent question of: What is art?Based on modern theory of mind, it explores the artistic experience on an ontological and semantic level and divides art into its conceptual and phenomenological qualities and their relations to the subjective human experience. It introduces the concept of Absolute Ideology, that aims to define the process of the artistic experience via strictly semantic tools and through the proposition of a chaos/order duality, places the artistic experience inside a non-binary qualitative spectrum. The result is a functional, albeit succinct progression through all necessary factors, that make up the conceptual and ontological nature of the artistic experience and a functional answer, that doesn't leave the reader empty-handed at the end.