This article is rich in content, rich in levels and complex in content, involving almost everything related to art philosophy and aesthetics-even more.
An important theme is that art is not limited to aesthetic taste. Works of art are meaningful. They have what philosophers call intentional content. For Heidegger, this means that they are the source of truth and a way for the world to reveal itself. In fact, they show the essence of truth itself, that is, it is "revelation". "You might say that works of art reveal information. In other words, they are conditional: they are not only related to something, but also to themselves.
Although Heidegger did discuss works of art such as painting and poetry, his main concern in his article was the buildings that played an important role in community life: the temples of Apollo, Athena and Hera in ancient Greece; Bambeck Cathedral. These works reveal the understanding of sharing among community members in a particularly vivid, concrete and direct way. Greek temples embody the meanings of divinity, death, victory and failure; Bamberg Cathedral illustrates the meaning of grace and sin.
Heidegger pointed out that Greek temples no longer "work" as they used to-they work because we don't share our understanding of existence according to their meanings. Ancient Greek works of art, such as the statue of Einar in Munich, have "retreated" from their world. We experience them from an aesthetic point of view, not as people who expose the truth.
In order to explain this phenomenon convincingly, we may need to see a contemporary art work. But Heidegger seems to think that there are no works of art in our world. In his view, works of art: our understanding of existence-"framework" or the essence of technology-is not embodied in works of art, because before our time, the understanding of things in the world was from incomprehensible to comprehensible-that is, disclosure. Paying attention to a work of art, including painting and clarifying its meaning, is an incomplete explanation. However, in the age of technology, this is not mysterious at all. Everything is accessible, operable and transparent. Not understanding or not understanding; All we need to know is how things work and how to operate them.
In my opinion, that's not right. Richard. In Heidegger: An Introduction (1997), the plot found a perfect example of contemporary works of art: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial focused on a specific event in Washington, D.C., not as comprehensive as the Apollo Temple or Bambeck Cathedral-unlike them, it is not the model we understand. But it succeeded in bringing Americans together, with the purpose of drawing out the significance of a very important event in our history, which can be compared with Heidegger's description of the temple to some extent.
I also see a more general problem in this article, which has nothing to do with the origin of works of art: in my opinion, it is confusing for Heidegger to insist that the phenomenon revealed is the essence of truth. We usually think that truth is correct, and correctness is a feature of proposition or representation. The concepts (and phenomena) revealed are far from propositional knowledge, and actually have nothing to do with the truth in the ordinary sense. Then, why insist on calling it "truth", even the essence of truth? The important argument is that disclosure is the meaning of existence.