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Analytical Conceptualism
Victor Skersis
The history of art tells us that art changed from the ancient era to the Middle Ages, from the Renaissance to modernism and postmodernism. The driving force behind this evolution is claimed to be external forces: social, political, even personal. As soon as these forces change, art changes—or so goes the argument. The trouble with this picture is that it describes well what happened, but it gives no idea of what will happen next. And it cannot tell us this precisely because it looks backward and assumes the driving forces to be external to art.
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 3, 2016
Category
Aesthetics, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art