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Nov 8, 2021 · Contemporary art has become just a form of entertainment, detached from spiritual life. It is characterised by capitalism’s fervent advocacy of individual freedom, its encouragement of...
Dec 17, 2019 · This chapter shows how these trends affect the art sector, which has become increasingly dominated by the money of economic elites, commodified and sensitive to cycles of boom and boost in the economy.
Sep 12, 2021 · Living in a capitalist society, we are forced to pit ourselves against each other in a system we have no choice but to participate in. We are coerced into adapting ourselves and our skills into...
Mar 6, 2015 · What does contemporary art really tell us about the world in which we live? Many of its most severe critics would say: nothing. It is trapped, instead, in a vainglorious moment of...
- Peter Aspden
- Art in Theory
- The Artist Unalienated?
- Creating A Need
- Endnotes
Admirably, the book opens with an ambitious attempt to outline a unified Marxist theory of art, or at least art under capitalism. Unfortunately, I think this and the other theoretical parts of the book, though always stimulating, are less successful. There is a lot to deal with here, far too much to tackle fully in a review. But there are two probl...
John’s opening argument centres on Marx’s concept of alienation. His contention is that one of the two things that define art is that, unlike most other forms of work or labour in capitalist society, the work process of the artists is unalienated: John and I had a debate about this question many years ago which played out at a number of public even...
So where do we go from here? Alienation remains central to any serious discussion of the arts, but the argument in my opinion needs to be reorganised. What I think we can say is that artistic production often challenges alienation. It is a realm of production that has the appearance of being free and often involves a struggle for free expression. T...
iSee John Molyneux, ‘The Legitimacy of Modern Art’, in International Socialism Journal, September 1998
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?
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First, a brief elaboration of how art functions within capitalism is required. Art is in fact, a product, and with the introduction of capitalism on art, the artistic product acquired in addition to its aesthetical value, a market value; Then the cultural value of the product is converted by the market into exchange value.
