Il cinismo dell'arte. Antropologia, etica ed estetica della body art

In the field of aesthetics and philosophy of arts, body art is considered a moment of high explication between art and life, which finds its roots in the experimentations of the twentieth century vanguards, but that is indeed exploding during the Second Post-War period, at the core of the so-called Consumer Society. However, in order to under-stand the phenomenon in its complexity, it is necessary to explore both its anthropo-logic "transcendental"background and its ethical consistency, the prototype of which is the ancient form of the "cynic"way of being. On this basis, it is possible to aestheti-cally compare body art and pop art, which are opposite, but at the same time comple-mentary, poles of the relationship between art and life in the postmodern world.