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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2019.19.07.220

Olafur Eliasson and the Reuturn of Medieval Aesthetics  

Chin, Jungkwon (동양대학교 교양학부)
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Abstract
Hitherto there have been by and large three different approaches to the installation works of Olafur Eliasson; a soma-aethetic, politico-aesthetic and techno-aesthetic. But none of these provides us with the aesthetic descriptions of the light effect. This failure seems to arise from the lack of the conceptual tools suit for describing the atmospheric effect of 'light'. The symbolism of light, or the theological optics of Middle Age may help us to compensate for the lack of appropriate concepts needed for theorizing the effect of light used very frequently by contemporary installation artists. And this medieval aesthetics of light can also of service to elucidate some essential characteristics of the digtal visual culture in general.
Keywords
Installation; Atmosphere; Phenomenology; Aesthetics of Light; Olafur Eliasson; Robert Irwin; James Turrel;
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