ART POWER

Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideological function. Ar guing for the inclusion of politically motivated art in contemporary art discourse, Groys considers art produced under totalitariani sm, Socia...[Read more]