The Power of Art Gabriel Hardback Polity Press 9781509540969

The Power of ArtAuthor(s): Markus Gabriel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509540969, 978-1509540969\nSynopsis\nWe live in an era of aesthetics. Art has become both pervasive and powerful it is displayed not only in museums and galleries but also on the walls of corporations and it is increasingly fused with design. But what makes art so powerful, and in what does its power consist?\n\nAccording to a widespread view, the power of art its beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. What counts as art appears to be a function of individual acts of evaluation supported by powerful institutions. On this account, the power of art stems from a force that is not itself aesthetic, such as the art market and the financial power of speculators. Art expresses, in a disguised form, the power of something else like money that lies behind it. In one word, art has lost its autonomy.\n\nIn this short book, Markus Gabriel reje.