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Quotes from Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction — Julian Stallabrass

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Governments, as we have seen, look to art as a social salve, and hope that socially interactive art will act as bandaging for the grave wounds continually prised open by capital.

Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (2006)

Art appears to stand outside this realm of rigid instrumentality, bureaucratized life, and its complementary mass culture. That it can do so is due to art’s peculiar economy, based on the manufacture of unique or rare artefacts, and its spurning of mechanical reproduction.

Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Julian Stallabrass (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.