CS251 Chapter Notes - Chapter Intro: Seagram Building, Pierre Bourdieu, Corporate Donations
Document Summary
Magritte"s painting this is not a pipe . Title of textbook acknowledges contemporary challenges to the conception of art history and aesthetics as self contained disciplines . Michel foucault"s idea that carving out areas of study is a form of power that controls what we make, do or think. When viewed as broad elements, culture, art, etc. seep into social relations previously considered unrelated to them. Then become implicated in power relationships implicit in political phenomena. Book doesn"t describe paintings or buildings but how they fit in the power structures of society. Long legacy of looking at the political or power implications of cultural production that dates back to marx. Marx = one of the 1st social analysts to note that culture could play a highly ideological role link. Innumerable interventions emphasizing political role of culture since marx"s time. Part of mission is to integrate them into broader critical analysis of art world.
