Before beginning the basics of writing, I would include a small personal reflection not on the use of some grammar and its connotations.
The basic idea of \u200b\u200bthis modern age we live in is the sudden change with no direct impact on the population. With repeated use of a vocabulary clearly negative, as the repetition of words unambiguously crisis, or terrorism in other cases, the inference to the population to "jump through hoops, almost condescending accepting changes and cuts, later, would have been the subject of complaints, strikes and demonstrations. The society of the spectacle, that's what both writers, philosophers and scholars speak from a few decades ago, becomes nowadays a simple engine for entertainment mass, they lose interest in the study of the origins of things to simply enjoy its peak last, the bright, large, bright and spectacular.
my particular case, in relation to contemporary art is that of someone who showed great interest in it before you jump right to wipe case. But once I met through the history of avant-garde world of pop art, neo-Expressionism and the current trend of video art and installation art resources povera, I realized why so many things. Work completely devoid of aesthetic sense that they were recognized as works of art that were auctioned for thousands of billion, of which the authors went on to be world renowned artists, is something that, without knowing the seed, the genesis of the case why is not possible to understand.
Turning now to matter, this is something that always reproach the art. Want to self-imbued in an aura of mystery, of course, excluded. Even today, in an era in which there are thousands and thousands of artists, something unthinkable in other stages, of which many are represented by major galleries and sold piece by huge amounts of money at a time when everyone could have access to contemporary art, visiting galleries of international reputation, seeking information or even investing in large projects. Still, the art is to remain exclusive. It is hypocritical. Wants to open its doors to the world, but not before putting two huge doormen who choose who gets in and who's not as if it were an exclusive club of the most central area of \u200b\u200bManhattan in NYC.
Guy Debord, a philosopher framed within the Situationist movement, whose central idea is to create situations, traces the development of a modern society in which "Everything that was once directly lived has become mere representation." Debord argues that the history of social life can be understood as being in decline have, and appear to be just. " This condition in which authentic social life has been replaced by the image represents, according to Debord, "the historical moment in which the commodity completes its colonization of social life." This is what many art scholars would call the triumph of Andy Warhol, and his formulation of what was to him the art (pop art).
But in addition to the "art and mass-produced goods" is the factor of investors in the world of art galleries and collectors are mostly multimillionaires. Which do not escape the same designs that have the rest of the world billionaires, bankers, businessmen, etc ... capital value and the continuous rise of stock market performance.
With this in mind, we can divide the "problem" in two factors. On the one hand, contemporary art, it is to make art that was developed in our time. In the case of contemporary art, runs from poststructuralist theory which has coined the term "postmodern," which defends the impossibility of continuing to build from the precepts of the originality and novelty (elements of modernity), instead of It points to elements such reinterpretations, new meanings and the linguistic turn in order to broaden the concept art and set it as a communicative act.
On the other hand we have the economic system in the West, neo-liberal capitalism, an economic policy emphasizing macroeconomic technocratic and seeks to minimize government intervention in economic and social, to defend free-market capitalism as the best guarantor institutional balance and economic growth of a country, except in the presence of so-called market failures. Uniting
both get what we call art market, specifically the contemporary, like the rest of the world markets, is subject to speculation and price bubbles, but it is the only one who escapes the monopoly laws and other laws intrinsic to the sale and auction of market, adding to this the ability to deduct the more expensive to finance than your possessions and more donations, "disinterested" to make art galleries in the world.
making it a perfect breeding ground for the proliferation of the "ecosystem" neo-liberal free market, as evidenced every day since 2008, is quite irregular, so much of the unsustainable.
" And surely our time ... prefer the image to the object, copying the original,
representation to reality, appearance to be ... what is 'sacred' for him
is but an illusion, but what is profane is the truth. Better yet: the sacred
eyes increases with decreasing the truth and illusion
grows to the point that the height of the illusion is too high for him
of the sacred. "
Feuerbach, Preface to the Second Edition of The Essence of Christianity.
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" The Society of the Spectacle "by Guy Debord
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