The Relationship Between Ethical and Aesthetic in Contemporary Art

At the beginning of the XXIst century, we admit a scission in the relationship between art and morality, ethics and aesthetics, and, by default, between public and artists. The series of the artworks that caused large public scandals over the last decades leaded the way for the contemporary philosophers to develop their first theories, following the idea of respecting ethical norms in public art events. The background of such visions, which varies between the manifestation of art freedom and disobeying any ethical limit challenges, induced our interest to also a possible ethical evaluation of art, raising controversies such as: Should art be preoccupied with obeying the ethical rules? By what means and to what extent? Can we harm or inhibit creativity or generate another range of expression and manifestation? Where can the ethical and legal assessment in art be allowed? Why and, above all, what does it mean when the artist has autonomy?