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Dec 17, 2019 · the new modality of capitalism, the global mobility of goods and capital acquired a higher level, economic elites become more powerful and influential, while labor unions and civil society organizations were weakened, inequality levels soared, and various activities became commodified, including the art sector (Solimano, 2014; McAndrew, 2018).
- 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 ...
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 ...
Art is integrated in the current economic system that is capitalism. The presuppositions of capitalism are "private property, the separation of labor, capital, […]and likewise of wages, profits and ground rent; also, the division of labor, competition and the concept of exchange value" (Marx, Alienated Labour, 1977, p. 365).
- Ilaria Riccioni
Jan 17, 2018 · The avant-garde art of the twentieth century is a turning point in the meaning of art in industrial society, but it is not only, as Jean Baudrillard (1970, 53–75) says, the beginning of the theatrical age and of simulacra, or, as Walter Benjamin (1966, 17–56) maintains, the beginning of the loss of the aura of art. Art, once confined to the aesthetic domain, for the first time consciously ...
- Ilaria Riccioni
- 2018
Oct 1, 2021 · Neoliberals seek to appropriate mural art into markets and capitalist institutions that support gentrification, settler colonialism, and neoliberal capitalism, while Pan-Africanists and others still use art to realize another world. Exterior of the Colony Club, Washington, DC, 2020. Photograph by the author.
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2018. Art and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors explore how in these two decades, the neoliberal or market-based model of capitalism started to spread from the economic realm to other ...
