¹TRAN VAN HAO, ²HO THI DUNG, ³LE VIET NGHI

¹Lecturer at Dong Nai College of Decorative Arts

²Lecturer at Dong Nai University

³Lecturer at Dong Nai College of Decorative Arts
Address: No. 07, 30/4 Street, Trung Dung Ward, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province, Vietnam

DOI : https://doi.org/10.58806/ijsshmr.2025.v4i10n22

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to affirm art as a vital act in the face of globalization and existential crisis, thus developing a liberating aesthetic framework that links art with truth, freedom, and responsibility. Unlike the traditional understanding that places art in privileged spaces and separates it from life, this study approaches art as an existential mode, where people affirm their presence, combat alienation, and create community. The research method is implemented in an interdisciplinary direction, combining philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and aesthetics, while also applying qualitative methods, including analysis, synthesis, and comparison. The focus is on deconstructing fixed notions of art, placing it in relation to opposing pairs such as inevitability and freedom, individual and community, resistance and constructivism, in order to clarify the humanistic and practical dimensions of art. The results show that art is no longer just an aesthetic object to be contemplated, but has become a liberating possibility: it democratizes creative experience, exposes truth, resists standardization, and nurtures collective memory. Art also serves as a means of healing, education, and evoking future perspectives, helping people maintain their humanity in the context of complex and multifaceted crises. The key conclusion drawn is that liberation aesthetics places art at the center of a new existential order, where truth, freedom, and creativity are not only affirmed at the theoretical level but also practiced in everyday life.

KEYWORDS:

The art of living; Liberation Studies; Free; Alienation; Community.

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