Stretnutia s fikciou, umením a realitou

Encounters with Fiction, Art, and Reality This is an essay about the relationships between reality and fiction against the background of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s distinction between art, myth, and science and the ‘Engineer’s Aesthetic’ of Le Corbusier. The author first traces Lévi-Strauss’s conception of the relationship between art, the bricolage of mythical thought, and scientific structuralism and draws our attention to Lévi-Strauss’s scepticism about the future development of art, which corresponds to the decline of the element of the event in art and the growth of its structural organization. The author then casts doubt upon this scepticism with reference to Le Corbusier’s view of the new possibilities of art in technical and scientific society. He concludes that polymorphism is a fundamental feature of artistic fiction. Artistic fiction moves between the poles of the engineering aesthetic and mythic appropriation. That enables one to be broadminded about contemporary art as well.