Abstract
The aim of this paper is to address the problem of argumentation bases that entitle us to apply schematic curves to indicate the development, fluctuation, break, crisis or end of art, respectively, over the possibilities of thinking of evolution in a situation where, after modern and postmodern destruction of metaphysics, we obviously do not have any unifying concept of development or history. I will look for a few points for two authors influenced by Martin Heidegger's ontology.
In the introductory part of the paper devoted to Jan Patočka I would like - also with regard to the main theme of the conference - to interpret the first of his study Art and the Time (1966), which will serve as an example of modern thinking historicity and also specific, innovative and updated access to Hegel's work, which Patočka, as his detailed expert, continues to think and shows his relevance beyond the boundary of the original metaphysical system. The second part of paper will focus on the analysis of the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo, who is trying to describe the change of ontological status of art and human existence in a time when our world is shaped by the mass media and information technologies.
In both authors I will try to show the possibilities of some "post-metaphysical" thinking of development and its possible excesses.