Key Points:
- Why and how did art become the 'mirror of fraud?'
- Origins of the consumer society and its impact on art, post war, how the lifestyle of consumerism was born.
- Capitalist economy influences
- Art has never been more serious in its view of art than in the era of Rothko and Bacon.
- pop art and post modernism taught people to enjoy money and mass media
- Art has become the 'enemy of truth, the murderer of decency'
Further Research:
- More Johnathan Jones articles for the Guardian?
- More on the critique/ other side of the art world that exposes these values but from a more diverse point of view.
Reflections
- While it is important to consider what the text is saying, it seems a bit too harsh.
- This text seems very against art, especially commercial art.
- Very biased opinion. No argument in the text really.
- There seems so be some kind of anger about consumerism and how that has influenced art.
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