Al acecho del mensajeEl pensamiento estético de Claude Lévi-Strauss
ISSN: 1137-4802
Year of publication: 2009
Issue Title: Lévy-Strauss
Issue: 26
Pages: 31-45
Type: Article
More publications in: Trama y fondo: revista de cultura
Abstract
Claude Lévi-Strauss' thought on aesthetics relies on refusing to construct an insurmountable wall between Nature and Culture, that is, the two poles that mythical thinking tries to reconcile. Art, regarded both as a source of aesthetic pleasure and a way of knowledge, is conceptualized as the minimum abiding trace that the human race, destined to disappear in the future, is able to leave behind it in an unconcerned universe. Within this framework, it is feasible to overcome one of the antinomies the Western thinking relies on: the distinction between the sensible and the intelligible. In the manufacture of the work of art, a mechanism shows itself as being crucial: the bricolage, which serves the artist to give a new shape to old objects by using the virtual properties of the unconnected things from the materials that he/she has convened and reused.