The Telos Alluded in the Ortega’s Philosophy of Art (the Historicism that Nicol Ignores in his Review)

Abstract

Eduardo Nicol studies the Ortega’s historical reason: the historicism with which he reorients his vitalism. But in his review he does not include the philosophy of art: how Ortega interprets the avant-garde art as the symptom of a new era, because he understands that the defense of the autonomy of art by young artists responds to their understanding of art as inconsequential (in line with a new sensitivity vital in the early twentieth century). My thesis: With his notion of generation, Ortega starts his analysis of new art from its condition of historical product. Understood a telos for art history that places it closer to the target (pure art) than romantic art (its opposite).