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Sep 22, 2023 · While art can criticize capitalism, it has been absorbed into capitalism in our modern society, appearing to reflect the commodification of society. How can something be examined...
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The book opens with a discussion of art and artistic works in relation to fundamental Marxist concepts: alienation and labour; base (economics) and superstructure (social structures building on the base, including culture); artistic freedom; class and criticism; and form and content. In 1999, John wrote an article in this journal proposing that art...
John’s dialectical framework for theorising artistic freedom and judgement is extended in the chapter “The Emin Phenomenon, or the Phenomenal Emin”. The self-revealing content of the first phase of Tracy Emin’s known work focused on vulnerability, emotions, sexuality and her body. Its expressive conceptual forms, such as the installations My Bed, P...
“How Art Develops” is a broad-brush outline exposing the myth of “timeless” art. It shows historical flowerings and declines in art history as intrinsically linked to economic and social developments and humans’ changing relationships with one another and nature. John acknowledges that this process is complex and contradictory, asserting that “the ...
May 6, 2021 · Marx argued that capitalism deformed art in a number of ways. Most importantly, the division of society into artists and non-artists, ‘the exclusive concentration of artistic talent in particular individuals, and its suppression in the broad mass’, is deeply damaging to art itself.
Nov 8, 2021 · It is characterised by capitalism’s fervent advocacy of individual freedom, its encouragement of so-called “creativity” and the idealisation of unfettered personal development.
Dec 17, 2019 · Global Capitalism, Neoliberalism and the Art Market: Main Linkages. Since the 1970s and early 1980s, in response to the decay of Keynesianism, more active militancy of labor unions ,and attempts to democratization, there was a turn towards
May 11, 2020 · This article proposes a sociologically informed analysis of ‘creativity talk’ using an approach based on Raymond Williams’ ‘keywords’. Arguing that Williams’ perspective provides a helpful conceptual foundation, the discussion argues that the emergence of contemporary ideas circulating around creativity are rooted in material ...
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Oct 1, 2021 · Further, if neoliberalism is a substantially distinct stage in the history of capitalism, and not merely its intensification, what are the implications of this new condition for the practice and criticism of contemporary art? What does it mean to practice and theorize art, to be an artist or critic, under neoliberalism?
