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Apr 16, 2021 · Theoretical intervention. 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.
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.
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...
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 objectively...
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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Jan 17, 2018 · The relationship between art and the markets in a capitalist society causes an inevitable end to the kind of art that is not market oriented and does not strive for success by relinquishing free creativity and the adoption of an instrumental kind of creativity demanded by the markets.