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[Simon Biggs]

Jean has hit the nail on the head with that one. I think he could go further and propose that the art market abolishes art, at least within the domain that is the art world, which now equates to the art market.

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Simon


On 6 Aug 2011, at 16:40, Julian Oliver wrote:

> "Behind this mechanical snobbery, there is in fact an escalation of the power
> of the object, the sign, the image, the simulacrum and value of which the best
> example today is the art market itself. This goes well beyond the alienation of
> price as a real measure of things: we are experiencing a fetishism of value
> toat explodes the very notion of a market and, at the same time, abolishes the
> artwork as work of art."
> 
> Conspiracy of Art, p44, Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Series, 2005.


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