Docu-mentality

In the present paper I propose to consider

art as a specific form of documentality, much different

from ordinary documentality, usually made of

objects like cards, tickets, maps and so on. Before

considering documentality, we need to reconsider

our theory of human communication. Following

Searle’s theory of social reality, art communication

can be based on social ontology, which depends, in

turn, on collective or intersubjective intentionality. I

will not argue that art founds that intersubjective intentionality.

I will attempt to show that some artworks,

for instance pottery or architecture when they

become archaeological documents, are able to show

some characteristic features of documentality as an

activity.