O ideal e sua sombra: a concepção de formação (Bildung) na teoria estética de Winckelmann

Abstract

Starting from the assumption that images are essential to the formative processes to which modern German philosophy dedicated its reflection through the concept of Bildung, the present work aims, based on the aesthetic theory of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717 - 1768), to investigate such formation processes. that surround their concepts. Attributing the very purpose of art as pedagogical, Winckelmann seeks to establish classical Greece as a parameter not only aesthetic, but also ethical. In this sense, Greek antiquity will serve both as an ideal of aesthetic representation and as a utopian archetype of the political and moral dimension that presents itself as a need for cultural reform. Winckelmann's thought identifies the art of his time as a reflection of cultural decadence arising from an art generated by the monarchy and the Church, Greek antiquity would be the maximum idealization of a morality inserted in the image itself, that of the grandeur of the soul and simplicity noble.