From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part Two

Art’s desire to endlessly demonstrate its compromised place ultimately makes it as monotonous as the commodity culture from which it tries to distinguish itself.

Part One of From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art is available here.

A social outlook operates with such ubiquity today that it borders on constituting contemporary art’s a priori. But the emergence of sociologized art—art that locates meaning in its existence as a social fact and in calling attention to society—has no linear history. Its genesis has to b…