The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art

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must be frustrating for philosophers... no matter how many words they expend trying to disenfranchise it, it remains a lurking threat, like a razorblade in a cake.
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i think the canon is the problem, all the examples used are the same tried handful of movements
kind of feels like the american seizing of art in the 50s was a deeply distorting event... an illusion of progress

a major problem with the whole line of argument about "the end of art" is that it fails to account for movements like the futurists, who would be just as powerful today given the right historical circumstances, art as cultural articulation.
I'd argue that arts diffusion of energy in the world today is an aspect of where mass culture is at. during the modernist period where art was making bold pronouncements, there was a feeling that that the old (political) order had been entirely discredited (a process that began in the English speaking world with the English civil war) and what was to come was entirely up for grabs, and the primary drivers, those at the cutting edge of the social movements fighting to shape the world were (chiefly political) philosophers (especially populist philosophers publishing work for mass consumption and their patrons in the media), in this context the various modernist movements can be seen  as either propagandists articulating the various political philosophies, or as propagandists for a political philosophy relating to art (that art is actually this or that inscrutable thing as a proxy war for inarticulable radical political positions).

after ww2 the matter was considered settled... (and I personally believe the matter was settled in the world of political philosophy as the driver of mass culture as early as 1936 when the first real world effects of these warring political philosophies were made manifest in the Spanish civil war and Kristallnacht, or the camps had at least solidified to a point where their incompatibilities were obvious to everyone)

political philosophers ceased to be the drivers of mass culture and were replaced by consumerism and the movies (or the movies and consumerism), pop art was the reaction to this whereas abstract expressionism was the development of where art had been left sitting (as art)

by the end of the 60's the pivotal driver of mass culture had established it's self to be music, which had a far more individualist message than the political philosophies of the inter-war period, any danger it posed being to the individual participating and to the vestiges of social conservatism, but now the whole music genre as movement thing is starting to fall apart under new distribution methods that struggle to create genres with the robustness or penetration to create meaning.