/lit/ - Literature

I like John Berger's books

Read this recently, honestly was pretty underwhelmed.

I feel like post-modernity has deadlocked any meaningful discussion about art, as long as it is purely subjective it opens the door for the kind of bullshit no-skill art you see if you go to just about any gallery or museum nowadays.

We're in this shitty spot where we sort of know that the subjectivity is there, but we can't concede to subjectivity all the way because then that leaves us with nothing, no gradient on which to judge art. Then the door is wide open to someone declaring that something is now art, and logically, it has to be accepted alongside established great pieces.

I mean fuck, no one can even agree on the definition of art for Christ's sake.

But in any case, if anyone could reccomend some books that prove me wrong I would love that.