03/08/2007

Quotations about Political Art

"(...) emancipation can’t be expected from forms of art that presuppose the imbecility of the viewer" (Rancière)
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"The exploited have rarely had the need to have the laws of exploitation explained to them." (Rancière)
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"(...) the artist’s task is to hold them a arm’s length, inculcating a skeptical distance" (Kester)
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"The discourse, [Claire Bishop] argues, has focused mainly on the artist's process and intentions, or the project's socially ameliorative effects, to the neglect of the work's aesthetic impact." (Roche)
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