O fim da história da arte: relações entre arte e história no final do século XX.

Abstract

In the late 70s and early 80s of the twentieth century, the French artist Hervé Fischer, the German art historian Hans Belting and the American philosopher Arthur Danto, presented theories about the imminence of the end of art and its history. In the same time are in vogue the thought of post-modernity and post-structuralist theory, besides the changes that are happening in the social, political and artistic fields, which contribute to the notion of “end”. By working with the theme of historiographical constructions, theories are considered to think the possibilities of manipulation through the speech, the influences of the author's historical time and their own beliefs, preferences, ideologies and imaginations that direct the writing in history. The question is what is the meaning of "order" in this context, which ceases to exist in the writing of history, what changes in the theory of history and theory of art, and what their prospects from then. For a historiographical review about the end of art history, this dissertation seeks relationships and intersections between the knowledge of art, history and other disciplines, in order to increase knowledge about the subject.