With some delay also art historians started to shift their attention from the retualized celebration of the artist towards the role of spectators and buyers in defining the status and value of art. ... It is about the ways in which art serves to legitimize, sustain and conceal social inequality. ... To set the stage for his study, that tellingly is confined to representational art, Berger first dismisses the traditional approach of art history as mystification. ... Following the ideas of Levi-Strauss, Berger explains the development of this particular art technique and art form and its phenome...

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Rather than 'art for art's sake', it appears that theatre is most effective when understood as an amalgamation of 'art' and 'life'. ... The struggle to find a compromise in the theatrical representations of anarchism is exemplified in Les Mauvais Bergers in 1897, wherein Mirbeau's depiction of a workers' revolution against capitalists led to a range of inaccurate critical responses, some saw it as "a poorly-conceived attack on parliamentary socialism"10 whilst for others it was "worthless dilettanism"11. ... The multi-dimensionality of Les Mauvais B...

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In its broadest sense, popular music is an umbrella term referring to a vast range of commercially mass-marketed musical genres contrasting with classical or art music and intended to appeal to the masses (e.g., rock, rock and roll, hip-hop, grunge, heavy metal, rhythm and blues, punk, soul, techno, funk, rap, house). ... Peterson and David Berger suggest that the period 1948 through 1973 is charac...

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