To the question of what is art? , it is often simply responded that
art is whatever is produced by the artist. For John Molyneux, this
clearly circular answer is deeply unsatisfying. In a tour de force
spanning renaissance Italy and the Dutch Republic to contemporary
leading figures, The Dialectics of Art instead approaches its
subject matter as a distinct field of creative human labour that
emerges alongside and in opposition to the alienation and
commodification brought about by capitalism. The pieces and
individuals Molyneux examines - from Michelangelo's Slaves to
Rembrandts Jewish Bride to the vast drip paintings of Jackson
Pollock - are presented as embodying the social contradictions of
their times, giving art an inherently political relevance. In its
relationship of creative and dialectical tension to prevailing
social relationships and norms, such art points beyond the existing
order of things, hinting at a potential future society not based on
alienated labour in which creative production becomes the property
and practice of all.
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