9.5 Theses on Art and Class : And Other Writings

Notes

Seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art’s most persistent debates, from definitions of political art, to the troubled status of “outsider” and street art, to the question of how we maintain faith in art itself in a dysfunctional world.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)

Artist / Author Ben Davis
Publisher Haymarket Books
ISBN 978-1608462681
Reference P3153
Date 2013
Type Publication

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