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ALIENATION EFFECT IN CONTEMPORARY ART USHERING INTO CREATIVITY

FRANCIS ANKYIAH, PHILIP KWAKU BOATENG


This paper is to show that, it is just the strangeness originating from postmodernism aesthetics experience that is absolutely different from those with which we have long been familiar with: that is the aesthetic of the beautiful, and that of the aesthetic of the sublime. To provide the empirical evidence necessary to show that, it is indeed, the aesthetic of the strange that has informed art of since Modernism and Postmodernism, the paper seek to give more elaborate argument to back up any such introduction of aesthetic of the strange alongside the traditional ones of the beautiful and the sublime. This paper is also to argue that the experiencing of the “strangeness”, rather than beauty or sublimity, has drawn us more deeply into the creative works. With regards to more recent discussion, the paper focused on Immanuel Kant, Jean–François Lyotard, the prime motivator for my engagement with the problem in hand.