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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 ...
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 ...
- 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
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).
Nov 8, 2021 · Even if it is temporarily eclipsed by human greed and desire, its re-emergence is inevitable, and all of humanity will be the better for it. Ai Weiwei: artist and activist. This article appeared ...
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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Mar 6, 2015 · In a new series of exhibitions at the Max Hetzler galleries in Berlin and Paris, artists are trying to shake off their introspection and build bridges to the real world. Open Source: Art at the ...
