THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ART IN AN AGE UTILITY

What remains of art when everything is measured by usefulness, speed and performance? Toward a Responsibility of Art in the Age of Utility is a philosophical essay on beauty, perception and the role of art in contemporary life. Ignazio Fresu examines how consumer culture, constant visibility and accelerated attention are changing our ability to look, feel and remain present. Drawing on artistic practice, aesthetics and phenomenology, the book explores the work of art not as an object to consume, but as an experience to inhabit. It reflects on silence, suspension, memory, distance, the body and the possibility of slowing down. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book is for readers interested in contemporary art, philosophy and cultural criticism. It offers no closed system or easy answers. Instead, it asks a more urgent question: can art still create spaces where human experience resists being reduced to content, performance and utility?