Abstract:

It is known that important notions that lead art in the historical process have undergone transformation due to different reasons. One of the important problem areas that came to the fore within the scope of the innovative, destructive and formalist understanding of modernism has become an object with the conceptual and formal transformation process. Artistic practices that started with the representation of the object in paintings, the emergence of different forms, content and application methods in parallel with the conditions brought by the changing age and the needs of the artist; It has been the source of the acceptance and interpretation of the object as a form of art by itself. The object handled with different concepts, events, time and space relations between modernism and postmodernism; it has been operationalized as a means in the expression of specific problem areas in parallel with the currents and styles that lead the art. The multidimensional transformation process that the object has experienced in the field of art since modernism constitutes an important field of research. In line with this importance, document review and literature review methods were used in the study. The aim of the study is to reveal the structural and semantic transformation of the object in the context of modernism and postmodernism by examining it through different concept relations and examples of works.

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