Class Appropriation, or How the Bourgeoisie Commodifies the Art and Culture of the Proletariat. A Discussion Between Walt Whitman, Karl Marx, and Queer Art

Zusatztext

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, grade: 88.0, language: English, abstract: I seek to reveal the complex relationship between the bourgeois business world of art and the proletariat artist. Furthermore, I will be commenting on the appropriation and erasure of minorities by those who fetishize art merely for the sake of inflating their own visage of wealthiness. I will do this through a detailed reading of Karl Marxs Manifesto of the Communist Party alongside the discussion of Walt Whitman tied with an analysis of the works of queer artists, such as Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Autorenportrait

Ben Grubner is an undergraduate student at Bard College at Simon's Rock studying Art History, Political Studies, and Critical Theory. Grubner's primary focus is upon the commodification of dissent, that is to say how capitalism has shaped conceptions of disagreement, specifically within the realm of art and politics.

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