Boris Groys: Marx after Duchamp, or the Artist's Two Bodies

Boris Groys
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At the turn of the twentieth century, art entered a new era of artistic mass production. Whereas the previous age was an era of artistic mass consumption, in our present time the situation has changed, and there are two primary developments that have led to this change. The first is the emergence of new technical means for producing and distributing images, and the second is a shift in our understanding of art, a change in the rules we use for identifying what is and what is not art.

Read the whole essay of Boris Groys at:

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/178

(Contemporary Art)