Abstract

K.Fiedler made inquiries into the meaning and value of plastic arts by looking for these traits not in the art-works themselves but in the process where they are born. According to him, in the artistic process, the artist's hands can make the eyes more active and powerful, and if we want to properly appreciate art-works of this kind and catch their actual value, we should experience the very process itself. However, can we as non-artisits do that in practice? Fiedler cared little about this problem. But we can never turn down this theory especially from the standpoint of the artist. In this paper, I will examine Fiedler's theory through the critical eye of E.Cassirer who suspected that Fiedler should have fallen under the heading of "subjectivism." On the one hand, I will clear Fiedler from this claim. On the other, I will explore further Cassirer's philosophy of culture and elucidate the a priori structure of the subject-object where our unique activities - linguistic, artistic, etc.- are based, so as to see how a visual world and its creators appear in the process and to grasp the possibility that artists and non-artisits can hold a certain viewpoint or see an object in the same way