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A Critical Study of Yuriko Saito’s Analysis on the Aesthetics of Emptiness and Sky Art

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2024, 72(), pp.104-142
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.72.0.05
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Received : April 15, 2024
  • Accepted : May 9, 2024
  • Published : June 30, 2024

Yoon Dol Youm 1

1중앙대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This article examines Yuriko Saito’s “The Aesthetics of Emptiness: Sky Art” (2017), a case study, from a critical view to extend the horizon of multiple discussions on everyday aesthetics and sky art. This study aims to explore the broad world of ‘aesthetic literacy,’ ‘the power of the aesthetic,’ and ‘moral–aesthetic judgment’ regarding everyday aesthetics and sky art beyond Saito’s discussion in terms of the association between sky and emptiness. Unlike conventional approaches to the sky and celestial phenomena, contemporary art projects that challenge the sky and celestial phenomena that are familiar in everyday life are examined in Saito’s study, including works by Cai Guo-Qiang, Anish Kapoor, Ando Tadao, Dennis Oppenheim, Otto Piene, and James Turrell. These case studies explore how sky arts help to cultivate our aesthetic sensibility and experience in everyday life through the aesthetic appreciation of emptiness. From a critical perspective, this article applies negative aesthetics, spectator-based viewing environment and spatial design, Gaia hypothesis, Deleuze’s theory of becoming and the concept of affect, and Lefebvre’s critique of everyday life and alienation to cases of sky art, and proposes limitations and future tasks that were not discussed in Saito’s analysis.

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