In the age of "after the end of art", we may try to consider arts as a part of play again. Johan Huizinga, in his famous Homo Ludens, a study of the play element in culture, suggested that all arts came from play. Roger Caillois found 4 elements in play which give us unusual experience of tension in crisis, helpless ego, another life and ecstasy (Les jeux et les homes). Abraham H. Maslow, in Motivation and Personality, insisted that every person has a need to realize his or her full potential, to become "self-actualization." On these bases, we may see play as a form of imaginary expansion of our potential and realization of them in unreal situation. In this view, arts are surely parts of the play.
In this paper we examine 3 types of arts. First, the passive imaginary experience by fiction such as novel or movie offers. Second, the active imaginary experience in creative process which either professional or amateur artists will have. Third, the ecstatic experience by physical synchronization with outer rhythm such as music or poetic parallelism induces. We can see the art as a play with which we temporarily experience the expansion of ourselves.
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