Open AccessThe Neoliberal Stamp on Post-socialist Art
Author(s) -
Nikola Dedić
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
monitor ish
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1580-688X
pISSN - 1580-7118
DOI - 10.33700/1580-7118.19.2.49-64(2017
Subject(s) - ideology , contemporary art , value (mathematics) , order (exchange) , state (computer science) , work of art , field (mathematics) , neoliberalism (international relations) , aesthetics , work (physics) , state of art , sociology , political science , political economy , art , law , politics , art history , economics , performance art , computer science , engineering , data science , mathematics , algorithm , machine learning , mechanical engineering , finance , pure mathematics
The main objective of this paper is to provide an outline for a future theorisation of the following question: what is it that specifically determines the art of our time, that is, how do the conditions in which this art is created differ from the conditions in which art was created a decade or even twenty years ago? In order to carry out this analysis, it is necessary to take into account several factors: (a) the specificity of the social order within which the art of our time is created, that is, the evolution of a neoliberal “transition” state and its ideological apparatus; (b) the problem of material work forms, which has to do with economic production models that both contemporary neoliberal state and art are based upon; (c) the issue of value (for want of a better word let us call it “aesthetic”) which is implied or entailed by the work in the field of art.