/lit/ - Literature

>>11251270
Impressionism is the first movement to fit under modernism as an artstic time period. Take an art history class dickhead.

>most popular visual artists precede the break from tradition
Yeah, bullshit. With the exception of the great renaissance painters, el greco, and the 17th century Dutch, the public is far more aquainted with Modernism. You're an idiot and out of touch with most people's tastes.

>>11251278
>if you don't even occasionally follow the current artistic production you're probably spouting bullshit about the state of art. It's very complicated and that's how you end up with people calling it both hyper-insular and hyper-populistic, hyper-complex and hyper-simple
This

>>11251292
>people get genuinely angry at Picasso's cubist stuff, i am not making this up
And yet Guernica, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and The Old Guitarists are some of the most recognizable pieces of art in the world and whose posters are plastered all over college dorm rooms, coffee shops, and are parodied in obnoxious tote bags. Hardly any average joe will know who Benini is by name.

>>9840338
>for reasons unknown
They present pretty explicit reasons, their whole project is to articulate those reasons.
>Class hierarchy has become embedded in social norms and institutions (Patriarchy, Company management, state structure)
>Poor education
>Lack of choice
>Social Democracy movements of the '60s (some would say)
>Intervention by state
of which have pretty expanded upon by thousands of other academics, recently and most famously by Zizek and Mark Fisher (pic strongly related)

>too stupid to realise how exploited they are
That's also not really what they say either. People damn well know they're being exploited, but their anger and frustration tends to be misplaced, as provoked by these stated forces.
So instead of going after the system itself, you have people like /pol/, SJWs, neoliberals and conservatives alike, who are led to believe that the system itself is basically fine, it just needs some fine tuning: Gas the Jews, Deport the immigrants, redistribute wealth just a tiny bit, destroy the white cis pig patriarchy through commercial means, show more brown people on television, etc. It's a critical misunderstanding of what's really going on. (So the the Frankfurts say)

>This obviously implies that critical theorists have an epistemological advantage which the "masses" do not, which I think is unjustifiable.
What does this have anything to do with epistemology? It's an education gap, sure, the Frankfurts were a select few who were able to go to college and spend a lot of their time just sitting around and thinking hard about this stuff, but hardly epistemology. It's not about superiority, it's about liberation.

>>8254630
>the mechanics of globalism have failed us though
Only because people are desperately grasping onto tribalism
There's also no literal going back. The internet guarantees globalism