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Apr 16, 2021 · John cites the Marxist art historian Arnold Hauser, who “identified Michelangelo as a key figure in this process and argues that ‘the fundamentally new concept in the Renaissance conception of art is the discovery of the concept of genius, and the idea that the work of art is the creation of an autocratic personality, that this personality transcends tradition, theory and rules’”. 3 ...
May 6, 2021 · In the case-study essays that make up most of the book’s second half, Molyneux repeatedly uses context to ‘open up’ art, to make it more accessible and moving. His interesting examination of Rembrandt’s shifting relationship to the emerging capitalism of sixteenth-century Holland is a case in point.
Sep 12, 2021 · While art in its essence is pure in expression; a momentary release and escape from modern day society, some contemporary artists have instead chosen to embrace this emergence of consumerism ...
This article takes up Lipovetsky`s discussion on artistic capitalism in "L'esthétisation du monde. Vivre à l'âge du capitalisme artiste", to trace its definitions and methodological construction, but also in order to create a critical theory of artistic capitalism, based on the following working-hypothesis: the production of art and the production of self, understood in the sense of a ...
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).
Analogously, with the possibility of its own market network, contemporary art can become a social actor in the markets. Art such as this could reflect on the economic dimension of artistic expression. According to Herbert Read (1982): “Only if a society becomes sensitive by the means of art, can this same society have access to ideas.” Notes 1.
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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 ...
