CAPTURE AND SUBVERSION - ART IN THE TEST OF LATE CAPITALISM

At a time when the cultural industry and the production system intend to capture and to divert the strategies of the artistic avant-gardes for their own ends, It seems to be accepted that art has now lost its power of resistance. Under the kind of generalized design, style has indeed become an argument of sale, the happening was taken over by the event industry, and the figure of the artist, once marginal, is erected as a model of entrepreneurship in a society that calls for the creativity and autonomy of workers. For a significant fringe of contemporary sociology, capitalism would have so completely assimilated the forms and processes of art, leaving no more artists have no choice but to court financial powers that now monopolize the levers of subversion. Laurent Buffet continues a dual objective. It first traces the stages of formation of this " sociological paradigm of art" in order to subject it to critical examination. He It is striking to note that sociology, empirical in its principle, shows for the occasion blind to the evolutionary properties of its object, otherwise said to artistic practices taken in the development of their own history. By highlighting the richness and subtlety of these practices, The book therefore pursues a second objective: to show that, faced with various processes of capture in which art is now found driven, he continues to subvert artistic conventions, in large part partly exceeded, in the name of which these phenomena are exercised, thus digging new and unsuspected margins. Re-establishing a critical theory today of culture supposes to reveal the mutations of the potential of resistance that continues to operate in contemporary forms of art.