To the question of what is art?, it is often simply responded that art is whatever is produced by the artist.
For John Molyneux , this clearly circular answer is deeply unsatisfying.
In a tour de force spanning renaissance Italy and the Dutch Republic to contemporary leading figures, The Dialectics of Art instead approaches its subject matter as a distinct field of creative human labour that emerges alongside and in opposition to the alienation and co.
Haymarket Books The dialectics of art, paperback/john molyneux
