4.0 out of 5 stars
exploring subjective intensities, December 24, 2011
This review is from: Race, Sex, and Gender (Hardcover)
I have far more interest in literary life than in art. I have been reading The Conspiracy of Art and expected to find an element of art biting back in the chapter of this book on Transgressive Art and the Modern Shaman. With modern society much more interested in who is doing what to whom on a regular basis than on how law was a vain attempt to control aspects of human behavior that could become personal addictions like a sexual identity, the basic curiosity about matters in Race, Sex, and Gender In Contemporary Art (1994) by Edward Lurie-Smith actually likes art which "manipulated the museum culture with unique adroitness, making it a means of empowerment for the artist himself, rather than for his salaried, bureaucratic interpreters." (p. 59).
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