Antiaesthetisc represents an important event in the understanding of art, as it expands and transforms the field of understanding of what counts as art and how to distinguish it from non-art. The emergence of the term is indicative of the temporal clash between modernism and postmodernism, when traditional aesthetic models are no longer sufficient to describe artworks that address questions of art in an innovative way of the disapperance of the art object. The notion of antiaesthetisc emerges most prominently within the Institutional Theory (Arthur Danto) in the second half of the 20th century in the United States, where it represents a response to modernist aesthetics and official art. From there, antiaesthetisc as an interdisciplinary form of culture spreads globally and becomes firmly rooted in contemporary art.
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