Don't confuse Baudrillard attitude with Jean Clair attitude about the conspiracy;-)
the conspiracy of art was a pleasant suggestion @ Baudrillard like the art as object conspiring itself as subject --following his implicit idea that all the fate of the subject was transfered now in the object (his criticism of Philosophy), it was not a claim nor a regret but a radical performance on this strategy. All the contrary @ Jean Clair as academician and former director of the museum of modern art in Paris, it was not a performance but a real claim (really former rightism) http://dvanw.blogspot.com/2009/03/132-complot-de-lart.html http://dvanw.blogspot.com/2009/03/132-complot-de-lart.html On 6 August 2011 18:55, Louise Desrenards <louise.desrena...@free.fr> wrote: > Probably yes. But his last conference @ Whitney Biennal (end of the > eighties) where he dismissed the pending of positive words to renew > the concepts of contemporary arts was exactly that proposition from > which they began to hate him for a long in NY. So it is exactly from > where he wrote "Conspiracy of Art" in the nineties as ironical > performance of these matters into truth of essay... > > http://www.liberation.fr/tribune/0101179372-le-complot-de-l-art (1996) > > > > On 6 August 2011 18:30, Simon Biggs <si...@littlepig.org.uk> wrote: >> Jean has hit the nail on the head with that one. I think he could go further >> and propose that the art market abolishes art, at least within the domain >> that is the art world, which now equates to the art market. >> >> best >> >> Simon >> >> >> On 6 Aug 2011, at 16:40, Julian Oliver wrote: >> >>> "Behind this mechanical snobbery, there is in fact an escalation of the >>> power >>> of the object, the sign, the image, the simulacrum and value of which the >>> best >>> example today is the art market itself. This goes well beyond the >>> alienation of >>> price as a real measure of things: we are experiencing a fetishism of value >>> toat explodes the very notion of a market and, at the same time, abolishes >>> the >>> artwork as work of art." >>> >>> Conspiracy of Art, p44, Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Series, 2005. >> >> >> Simon Biggs | si...@littlepig.org.uk | www.littlepig.org.uk >> >> s.bi...@ed.ac.uk | Edinburgh College of Art | University of Edinburgh >> www.eca.ac.uk/circle | www.elmcip.net | www.movingtargets.co.uk >> >> ______________________________________________ >> SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe >> Info, archive and help: >> http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre >> > > > > -- > > > > > ----- > -- ----- ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre