Cinema as fulfillment of the end of art: between purity and impurity

Abstract

Many have claimed that the ideal of art advocated by modernism has come to an end. The story founded by modern art no longer applies to certain contemporary practices, which has led to think that, beyond being necessary a new story that accounts for art in its various manifestations, the end of stories must be recognized, the inability to produce a new narrative to replace the modernist one to include and legitimize art forms today. It is this end of narratives that we can understand, following Arthur Danto, as the end of art, a concept that designates the transition from modern art to contemporary art. The objective of this text is to understand what place the cinema occupies within this transit —which, more than chronological, is conceptual—, by analyzing the notions of purity and impurity in art.