Art spiritualized over two centuries draws closer to nature, not further from it

Evidence

In addition to the undertow of a mentality that expected sudden change, another element reinforcing the persistence with which Adorno defended a concept of progress in modern art that was based on cleansing it of everything that was either traditional or alien to art, with no regard for either quality or content, was his peculiar concept of nature and of reconciliation with nature. In fact, as a result of the spiritualization that it has undergone during the past two centuries, and which has emancipated it, art has not alienated itself from natureas reified consciousness would have itbut has instead approximated itself to natural beauty in accordance with its own form … Art attempts, using human means, to make what is not human speak. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 684

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Adorno’s idiosyncratic concept of nature and reconciliation with nature, the hidden driver of his progress-in-art doctrine.
• XREF: connects to: Spiritualized modern art converges with natural beauty — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2734; Utmost artistic abstraction can become nature’s own eloquent language — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 684; Landscape art imitating nature grew as cities swallowed the countryside — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 370 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Spiritualized modern art converges with natural beauty — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2734; Utmost artistic abstraction can become nature’s own eloquent language — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 684; Landscape art imitating nature grew as cities swallowed the countryside — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 370 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Spiritualized modern art converges with natural beauty #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2734
• Landscape art imitating nature grew as cities swallowed the countryside #complicates (0.72) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 370