The Unveiling of Truth: Heidegger and the ontology of the work of art

This article examines the heideggerian text The Origin of the Work of Art to support the notion of truth as unveiling. The investigation follows the ontology leading thread of the work of art, while forward thinking to seek the place and importance of art, that reveals how the poetic housing of the human itself. The development of this work is divided, mainly, into three points: it analyses the difference of the heideggerian ontology in relation to traditional aesthetics; it understands that the hermeneutical circle such as the most appropriate way to think about art and discuss the definition of the "thing" that conduct into a new thinking to approaching art from the enowning thought. The investigation assures as the result the idea of the man is released in the unveiling process of truth and that, by the ontology, the work of art assures you a privileged access of being.