From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part One
The "political" is contemporary art's <em>idée fixe.</em>
The following is an abridged version of an essay that originally appeared in the first issue of Cured Quail, an art journal that focuses on the social determinants of contemporary reading and aesthetic experience—a program we share at Damage. The latter falls under what the editors of the journal understand as “literacy,” broadly conceived: the site of …
