>>2838228ENOUGH with the "democratization of the arts" meme
When's the last time you saw a representational democracy that served the interests of the people and not just those of a powerful minority? How exactly were the needs of every woman, child, slave, and deceased soldier in ancient greece reconciled with the single vote cast by the male citizen who fucked, raised, dominated and killed them, respectively?
If photography ever democratized the arts, it was a bourgeois revolution in the sense augured by Baudelaire. The vernacular is a bourgeois concept after all--coming out of the modern practice of dandyism and a socially coded everyday--and now it ideologically blindfolds the proletariat. Yes, we don't want any "stuffy art intellectualism"--let's keep the oppressed classes nice and ignorant!
