Interesting…but the expression “current art theory” is a bit of a waffle.
Contrary to what the author implies many’s the time and oft economics has featured in Art.
As Solzhenitsyn proposed Art carries from one man to another all his lifelong experiences, bringing with them all their colours burdens and flavours. Which I interpret as, art cannot be explained and dissected by theory, instead, it is a gift of sublimation that humans can experience. And as such it is and always has been connected to all the things that make up life, things like death and taxes.
I won’t claim any artistic merit…
But I’ll throw up some of my visualizations from the last 4 years!
‘The controversial neoliberal theorist Francis Fukuyama recently argued, in the magazine Foreign Affairs, that Marxist theory has been ‘replaced with Postmodernism, multiculturalism, feminism, critical theory and a host of other fragmented intellectual trends that are more cultural than economic in focus’. He went on to suggest that the ideology of the future needs to have ‘two components, political andeconomic’. Lacking an explicit or formalized economic component, current art theory does not fit this bill.
Political and Economic. WOW! AWESOME! Francis Who? End.
@Philip Lane
Now that The Aesthetic Turn is practically mainstream – when may we expect the launch of The Irish Journal of Aesthetic Economics?
How artists visualise financial crisis? In a similar way to how my daughter views it:
35 replies on “How are artists visualizing the financial crisis?”
No artistic merit claim – but my own visualizations, for the last 4 years, here:
http://www.japlandic.com/
Interesting…but the expression “current art theory” is a bit of a waffle.
Contrary to what the author implies many’s the time and oft economics has featured in Art.
As Solzhenitsyn proposed Art carries from one man to another all his lifelong experiences, bringing with them all their colours burdens and flavours. Which I interpret as, art cannot be explained and dissected by theory, instead, it is a gift of sublimation that humans can experience. And as such it is and always has been connected to all the things that make up life, things like death and taxes.
I won’t claim any artistic merit…
But I’ll throw up some of my visualizations from the last 4 years!
Firstly – The Guinness House Price Index:
Post with explanatory link – http://www.japlandic.com/2011/02/guinness-house-index.html
Original image – http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/GuinnessHouseIndex01.png
Next – Loose Lips Sink Ships!:
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/02/1-800-tell-brian.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/1800TellBrian01.png
The Glorious Few:
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/02/never-was-so-much.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/sofew02.png
The Perfect Storm:
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/02/stormy-weather.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/PerfectStorm.png
>300
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/02/2009.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/IrishPatriotism.png
Do not Like!
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/02/i-do-not-like-green-eggs-and-ham-or.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/greenparty.png
Silence Is Golden
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/02/silence-is-golden.html
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkrke5_silence-is-golden_news
The Wave
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/09/wave-goodbye.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/WavePower.jpg
Gambling For Salvation
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/09/economic-dilly-dali-ing.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/GamblingForSalvation.jpg
The author clearly knows what he is talking about as an economist. As to the rest, I agree with sf ca writer.
If It’s On A T-Shirt… It Must Be True!”
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/09/love-thy-neighbour.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/IrelandIsNot.jpg
One for NWL…
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/09/on-cross.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/IBRC.jpg
Not in Kansas anymore!
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/09/wizard-of-banksy.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/ClickYourHeels.jpg
Plan Nein!
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/09/b-movie.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/PlanBFromTheECB.jpg
Run! Zorba! Run!
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/09/run-zorba-run.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/Zorba.jpg
Gambling For Resurrection
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/09/gambling-for-resurrection.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/GamblingForResurrection.jpg
A Keane Reader
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/10/let-them-read-keane.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/LetTehmReadKeane02.jpg
The Massacre Of The Innocents
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/10/suffer-little-children.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/SufferLittleChildren.jpg
The Treachery Of An Inside Job
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/10/treachery-of-bankers.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/TheTreacheryOfBankers.jpg
Too Close To The Sun
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/11/eurocracy.html
http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz209/What_Goes_Up_/Japlandic/Eurocracy.jpg
Growth
http://williambanzai7.blogspot.com/2012/04/infinite-growth.html
Debt Pile
http://williambanzai7.blogspot.com/2012/04/debt-pile.html
etc.
Hierarchy of Bankster Needs
http://williambanzai7.blogspot.com/2010/09/maslows-hierarchy-of-bankster-needs.html
The Machine
http://williambanzai7.blogspot.com/2010/05/welcome-to-machine.html
Bust of Blind Biddy during her bohemian jousts in Paris of the 1930s
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5313319
Bust … sums it up really.
The Cartoonists are leading the way ….. I pop a few from PressEurop on here from time to time …
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1901261-deprived-debate
‘The controversial neoliberal theorist Francis Fukuyama recently argued, in the magazine Foreign Affairs, that Marxist theory has been ‘replaced with Postmodernism, multiculturalism, feminism, critical theory and a host of other fragmented intellectual trends that are more cultural than economic in focus’. He went on to suggest that the ideology of the future needs to have ‘two components, political andeconomic’. Lacking an explicit or formalized economic component, current art theory does not fit this bill.
Political and Economic. WOW! AWESOME! Francis Who? End.
@Philip Lane
Now that The Aesthetic Turn is practically mainstream – when may we expect the launch of The Irish Journal of Aesthetic Economics?
How artists visualise financial crisis? In a similar way to how my daughter views it:
http://www.google.ie/imgres?q=picture+of+financial+crisis&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1264&bih=616&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=U15te9fHwxEr8M:&imgrefurl=http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2009/03/financial-crisis-piggy-bank.html&docid=4N0JukbMlZ87NM&imgurl=http://pics.blameitonthevoices.com/032009/financial_crisis_piggy_bank.jpg&w=444&h=289&ei=AeifT6zGKNKDhQeI5MnBAQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=801&vpy=66&dur=1266&hovh=181&hovw=278&tx=150&ty=131&sig=116659757253217159770&page=3&tbnh=129&tbnw=172&start=42&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:42,i:171
Thanks one and all – haven’t laughed as much on one thread since JTO ‘left the bulding’.
@What Goes Up….
+1
🙂
well done… my favourite is it the one of Bertie smiling with his cup of tea with the caption “you voted for me”
The Wave is still my favourite.
Oh, and this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUOcy7P5WtEsaZn3Q2X0xJTA&feature=player_detailpage&v=p1vaGY-TUYk
@hoganmahew
Gold!
Silence Is Golden
http://www.japlandic.com/2011/02/silence-is-golden.html
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkrke5_silence-is-golden_news
(Should I throw up the Downfall vids?)
Ireland
True Lie
1 May 2012 The Irish Times Dublin
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1901801-true-lie
European Union
Austerity trap
20 April 2012 Trouw Amsterdam
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1845561-austerity-trap
@WGU
Yeah, at least one Downfall, they’re very much of that time!