Ben Davis 
9.5 Theses on Art and Class 

9.5 Theses on Art and Class seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art’s most persistent debates, from definitions of political art to the troubled status of ‘outsider’ and street art to the question of how we maintain faith in art itself.

Ben Davis currently lives and works in New York City where he is Executive Editor at Artinfo.

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1) INTRODUCTION

2) 9.5 THESES ON ART AND CLASS

3) ART CLASS

4) ART AND INEQUALITY

5) AESTHETIC POLITICS?

6) COLLECTIVE DELUSIONS

7) WHAT GOOD IS POLITICAL ART IN TIMES LIKE THESE?

8) THE BILLY PAPPAS PROBLEM

9) BENEATH STREET ART, THE BEACH

10) WHITE WALLS, GLASS CEILING

11) THE SOCIAL BASIS OF THE HIPSTER AESTHETIC

12) COMMERCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS

13) ART AS THE HUMAN RESISTANCE TO THE UNDEAD

14) CRISIS AND CRITICISM

15) IN DEFENSE OF CONCEPTS

16) THE AGE OF SEMI-POST-POSTMODERNISM

17) BEYOND THE ART WORLD

18) THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE

Over de auteur

Ben Davis was born in Seattle, Washington. He currently lives and works in New York City where he is Executive Editor at Artinfo.