Aesthetics as creation and transformation of world awareness

ENThere are fierce battles among artists and art critics concerning the “grounds,” sources, causes, and reasons for art. In this brief chapter, every explanation of art could not be addressed in detail. Rather, the focus of this discussion is the worldliness of all artworks. By this term is meant that under any reading of art, the world, or cosmos, is given a priori. Without the world as an a priori, it is impossible to think of things, events, their multifarious relationships, and their appearance and disappearance. Following this, the main thesis is that while things can be made, built, invented, or created, the cosmos cannot. There is no cause for this cosmos, but only for things and events within one type of cosmos. Art has helped create various types of worlds-the world of identity, eternal return, perspective, and dynamic fields-where events and things are understood in different ways. Indeed, art is responsible, like science and other disciplines, for the creation and maintenance of these worlds. Furthermore, the change from one artistic style to another very often signals a leap from one world to another. Quantum aesthetics can be said to be both somewhat compatible with the world of polar return and a driving force in moving away from the world of spatiotemporal perspective into the world of dynamic fields. If the world of perspectives is dualistic and rigid, the world of dynamic fields is antidualist and flexible and the perfect environment for quantum aesthetics to thrive. Furthermore, this world of fields is the one that quantum artists labor to create.