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Re: The Commodification of the avant-garde: Clemente, Basquiat,


> The co-optation of avant-garde artists is simply the logical
> conclusion of a systematic commodification of everything, including
> subversion itself.
> Louis Proyect

As former Situationist and socialist art historian T. J. (Tim ) Clark
writes in his book on Courbet (_Image of the People: Gustave Courbet
and the 1848 Revolution_): "bourgeois society is efficient in making
all art its own" (p. 6) and the "avant-garde...[is] an unabashed form
of social climbing" (p. 14). Michael Hoover



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