The masses have always remained more or less indifferent to culture in the process of development. But today such culture is being abandoned by those to whom it actually belongs—our ruling class. For it is to the latter that the avant- garde belongs. And now this elite is rapidly shrinking. Since the avant-garde forms the only living culture we now have, the survival in the near future of culture in general is thus threatened.
Another mass product of Western Industrialism, it has gone on a triumphal tour of the world, crowding out and defacing native cultures in one colonial county after another, so that it is now by way of becoming a universal culture, the first universal culture ever beheld.
Contemporary Art
Western-centric context (illustrating/challenging socio-cultural values and trends related to the west)
Art in art’s
Spaces (or challenging Art Institutions)
Art by artists
and for art audiences
Art as
distinct from crafts or technology
Definitions of
art by art’s theorists
Art in
reference to art-history, legacies, genres, styles
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