Friday, March 11, 2011

On Sharpie Drawing No. 12: Anabasis (i)

A voyage to the interior using Neocolor water-soluble oil pastels:

"But in contrast to orthodox Marxist aesthetics I see the political potential of art in art itself, in the aesthetic form as such. Furthermore, I argue that by virtue of its aesthetic form, art is largely autonomous vis a vis the given social relations. In its autonomy art both protests these relations, and at the same time transcends them. Thereby art subverts the dominant consciousness, the ordinary experience."---Herbert Marcuse, The Aesthetic Dimension.

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