{"id":50145,"date":"2023-09-21T18:32:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=50145"},"modified":"2023-09-21T18:33:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:33:42","slug":"art-and-its-power-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/art-and-its-power-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and Its Power to Change"},"content":{"rendered":"True art surprises us, calls on us to set ourselves in motion, takes us to the limits of the familiar, and demands that we change. Art relates to the middle realm: the artistic element lies between thinking and volition, between the sensory-physical and the supersensory-spiritual.&nbsp;This middle realm is a space of instability, of the search for balance and transformation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt is precisely because the essence of art is this dynamic middle that it appears as an enigma.&nbsp;Art strikes us first in the realm of feeling and experience and is not easily deciphered by thinking. It is not difficult to achieve clarity about the poles of thinking and volition, research and practical activity, but what lies in between initially eludes thinking. It is not surprising that it wasn\u2019t until th<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True art surprises us, calls on us to set ourselves in motion, takes us to the limits of the familiar, and demands that we change. Art relates to the middle realm: the artistic element lies between thinking and volition, between the sensory-physical and the supersensory-spiritual.&nbsp;This middle realm is a space of instability, of the search for balance and transformation. It is precisely because the essence of art is this dynamic middle that it appears as an enigma.&nbsp;Art strikes us first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9277,"featured_media":49871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9097,11354],"tags":[11371,8824],"class_list":["post-50145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-weltkonferenz-en","tag-2023-36-en","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}