Department of Art Research, Art University of Isfahan, Iran
10.22108/mph.2025.144910.1634
Abstract
It appears that with the emergence of everyday objects in certain forms of modern art, we are confronted with a kind of transfiguration of the ordinary object into an artwork. This study aims to elucidate the ontological implications of this transfiguration and demonstrate how modern art transcends and transforms the domain of natural understanding of beings by turning an everyday object into an artwork. to achieve this goal, a phenomenological approach based on Heidegger’s perspective is adopted, examining the transfiguration of everyday objects into artworks in light of the contrast between natural understanding and phenomenological understanding of beings. Following this path, it seems that the transfiguration of an everyday object into an artwork does not fit within the framework of the natural understanding of beings, as the natural understanding considers beings as things in themselves and devoid of relation. However, what occurs in this transfiguration is precisely the establishment of a new relation and encounter between us and the object, which the artist brings about by throwing the object into a new context and world. Conversely, since phenomenology understands the being of beings solely with regard to the notion of encounter and intentionality, and from the perspective of the way beings appear to us, the emergence of an everyday object as artwork can be explained within this framework. Based on this, it can be concluded that the modern artist, like a phenomenologist, suspends the natural understanding of beings and leads us into the phenomenological sphere of understanding of being.
Shokouhimanesh, P. and Shayganfar, N. (2025). Phenomenological explanation of the transfiguration of the being of everyday objects in modern art based on Heidegger's thoughts. Metaphysics, (), -. doi: 10.22108/mph.2025.144910.1634
MLA
Shokouhimanesh, P. , and Shayganfar, N. . "Phenomenological explanation of the transfiguration of the being of everyday objects in modern art based on Heidegger's thoughts", Metaphysics, , , 2025, -. doi: 10.22108/mph.2025.144910.1634
HARVARD
Shokouhimanesh, P., Shayganfar, N. (2025). 'Phenomenological explanation of the transfiguration of the being of everyday objects in modern art based on Heidegger's thoughts', Metaphysics, (), pp. -. doi: 10.22108/mph.2025.144910.1634
CHICAGO
P. Shokouhimanesh and N. Shayganfar, "Phenomenological explanation of the transfiguration of the being of everyday objects in modern art based on Heidegger's thoughts," Metaphysics, (2025): -, doi: 10.22108/mph.2025.144910.1634
VANCOUVER
Shokouhimanesh, P., Shayganfar, N. Phenomenological explanation of the transfiguration of the being of everyday objects in modern art based on Heidegger's thoughts. Metaphysics, 2025; (): -. doi: 10.22108/mph.2025.144910.1634
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