Politica e arte. Storia di un divorzio

Abstract

Liberalism has led to the domination of the economic over the political, which has divorced culture. Throughout history, first theocratic power placed art at its service; then, with the anthropocentrism of the Renaissance, man came to the center; finally, over the past two hundred years, art has freed itself, reaching the avant-garde. Today, W. Benjamin’s conceptual pairing (the aestheticization of politics, which seeks consensus in the world of images, and the politicization of art, with the new urban art) is once again relevant.