Fiat ars – pereat mundus: sull’arte pura come teologia dell’arte

Abstract

The text discusses the Benjamin analyzes on the idea of pure art as the slogan with which the art pour l’art reacted to the auratic art decline, which was being fulfilled with the technical reproducibility. The text touches on the analysis of the historical avant-garde, Dadaism and Surrealism, to understand what is the game space that they open, about the possibility of using new art forms as opposed to the concept of pure art used by fascism.