To get people to reject an idea by suggesting that the same idea is shared by groups that they despise is an established propaganda technique.
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If the public feels that by encouraging feminist art it participates in something important for humanity, funding it won’t be a problem.
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Art is always political. It exists within a context and uses elements that have a historical, political and social dimension.
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Most artists through history have produced art that has been homogenous, conformist and compliant.
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The arts world is a reflection of its surroundings. Academics and artists have internalised the needs of the system that they live in.
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It is essential for people to distinguish between the insignificant and the essential. But in the current context it is very difficult to discriminate.
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Our advanced capitalist market economy is based on the relationship between supply and demand and on specialised production of goods and knowledge.
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In Plato’s and Aristotle’s time, art had a social function. Today we are used to art for art’s sake.
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It has to be possible to distinguish between what is art and what is not for any theory of art to exist.
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In The Art of Commitment I defend that the function of art is political and that it is used to serve the interests of the market economy.
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