Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art (repost)
Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art
Oxford University Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0192801651 | Pages: 240 | PDF | 7.22 MB
Oxford University Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0192801651 | Pages: 240 | PDF | 7.22 MB
The art world is bound to the economy, writes Julian Stallabrass, "as tightly as Ahab to the white whale." In Art Incorporated, Stallabrass offers a provocative look at contemporary art and the dramatic changes that have taken place in the last twenty years, illuminating the connections between money, politics, and art. Stallabrass notes that the spectacular crash of 1989 profoundly changed the character of contemporary art, shattering the art-world's self-importance and producing a reaction against art that engaged with theory and politics, in favor of art that set out to awe, entertain, and be sold.