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Sep 22, 2023 · However, looking at current society, it could be argued that our art is just as bureaucratic: advertising serves as our high art. In the current landscape, capitalism has co-opted every aspect of ...
- Theoretical Intervention
- Representation
- The Human Future
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 ...
Dec 17, 2019 · 2. 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 neoliberalism in countries such as the United States (Reagan), the UK (Thatcher) and Chile
May 6, 2021 · Review. Art is not a reflection of society but is shaped by social production and cannot escape the alienation of capitalist conditions, argues Chris Nineham. John Molyneux, The Dialectics of Art (Haymarket Books 2021), 300pp. Parts of this book are refreshing. A great deal of writing about art is fairly unenlightening because it either deals ...
Oct 27, 2020 · Rather than embracing the nostalgic reconstruction of older forms of artistic production as with the pre-Raphaelites or the Arts and Crafts movement, this movement became associated with an aesthetic politics of ‘arts for art’s sake’ in which the innate properties of artistic media were pursued in and for themselves (‘The work of art’, as Adorno wrote, ‘becomes its own material ...
- Christopher Upton-Hansen, Kristina Kolbe, Mike Savage
- 2021
Oct 1, 2021 · Abstract. Apart from the longstanding and much-debated problem of art's commodification, how does neoliberalism transform and determine the conditions of artistic practice? 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 ...
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May 11, 2020 · As Marx noted, capitalism has always been, even if destructively so, a creative project. For example, in a competitive market society, new commodities constantly have to be created to attract consumers. If consumption rates drastically fall, so does the rate of profit, and a systemic crisis is generated.
