Benjamin Buchloh’s Writings Say Much Against Contemporary Appropriation Practices

In the end, as Pobric rightly notes, “this optimism is evidence of a sad nihilism: when everything is worth discussing, there is no nothing left to say.” And when reduced to its lowest common denominator, art ceases to be art and becomes another brick in the wall–junk food for the masses. Art, Pobric argues, cannot be democratic, “Whatever it does for politics, democracy has so far always been a threat to art.” When it comes to some appropriation “artists,” the threat to art could not be more true.

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