Radical Theory in Art + Economic Crisis

The Art Market, Affluence, and Degradation.
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"Anything we might call radical theory in the arts will have to be solidly constructed in all its social dimensions. It might take something as catastrophic as a collapse in the economic structure of this Society to have any substancial effect on the carreening superstructure of modern American Art."

Ian Burn (1939-1993)




Reading the quote above on radical art theory, I was amazed at its current relevance, and found myself wondering what the author would make of our current global economic crisis; it is also notable that in terms of the relationship between Art and Society that if you change the ending from "Modern Amercian Art" to "Modern American Society" or even just "Modern Society" , it reads well enough the same. DA