Abstract

This article titled "Author and Object In Terms of Post-Structuralist Arguments" discusses methodical system built by Structuralists and disconnecting efforts on the relationship with "ego" in association with the problematic "what art is" in the absence of author/artist/writer which is the place where the "ego" is positioned. The post-structuralist arguments, which sublate the autonomy of "ego" notion defined by Structuralists on language and parole, basically refuse the structure positioned on "central ego". This situation is considered as an author problematic in the art discussions and can be examined philosophically. This article does not only head to the artwork by separating the artists and the artwork, but it also opposes the interpretation symbolized with conscious/unconscious interventions on the artwork by the artist. The article also examines the endowed autonomy status. The death of author can be defined as a synonym of destroying the uniqueness established by the artworks based on 'ego'ism and the uniqueness of hegemony established in terms of discourse and text by post-structural arguments. Especially in the history of art, the process taking an important place in the author's questioning and emerging with Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain' transforms to an author problematic as a reproduction with Sherrie Levine. The approach on 'ego'ism in their artworks shown by Yves Klein, Robert Rauschenberg and Ben Vautier was examined within the problematic of the author and the art object.