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“What is wrong with the keepers of the library for not allowing me in?” (156).
(on Virginia Woolf)
Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
“I WILL REFER TO THE KIND of art in which I am involved as conceptual art. In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. * When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that make... See more
Every single product represents the hope for a dazzling shortcut to the promised land of total consumption and is ceremoniously presented as the decisive entity.
Society of the Spectacle
alienated consumption becomes for the masses a duty supplementary to alienated production
Society of the Spectacle
“It doesn’t really matter if the viewer understands the concepts of the artist by seeing the art. Once out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.”
Paragraphs on Conceptual Art
https://www.artforum.com/print/196706/paragraphs-on-conceptual-... See more
Paragraphs on Conceptual Art
https://www.artforum.com/print/196706/paragraphs-on-conceptual-... See more
Nicolas Chamfort—”Public opinion is the worst of all opinions” … “One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority” (90).
from Chamfort’s Maxims, 1795
Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton
“There is no considering the labor stored in things without thinking about the social relations that brought about their production.”
-Kenneth Baker, “Some Exercises in Slow Perception”