The assumption that a work of art has an independent value, which is linked to its enjoyment by the consumer, is out of date. In the modern world the art has also an important social function. It separates the cultural elite, who find the art’s “colors and patterns exceptionally beautiful”, from the philistines, “who are unfit for their office or unpardonably stupid”.
The assumption that a work of art has an independent value, which is linked to its enjoyment by the consumer, is out of date. In the modern world the art has also an important social function. It separates the cultural elite, who find the art’s “colors and patterns exceptionally beautiful”, from the philistines, “who are unfit for their office or unpardonably stupid”.