Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
Theodor W. Adornowas a German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth11 September 1903
CountryGermany
art doe facts
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.
art men office
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.
art order tasks
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.
art reality becoming
Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
art world rational
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
art successful thinking
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.
art kitsch imitation
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch
art poetry way
Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.
art broken creation
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
art states mass
Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.
art self law
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.
art men form
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
art survival different
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
art domination folks
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.