Ronald DeNota

Expressionistic Hegemony

With what strategies and tactics, and how successfully do artist try to emancipate themselves from the capital, commodification, institutionalisation, custodianship and other kinds of control?

What new theories and philosophies of art and culture developed for understanding hegemony and struggles against hegemony now? Did artistic avant-gardism become mainstream, or is this mainstream discussion just another way to introduce hegemony in the safe haven of institutionalised culture? In the last few years a good number of texts and books were written about this topic, and in manner which goes beyond already mannierist touch of postmodernism.

There is not one and only philosophical or theoretical school of way of thought to deal with these questions, and these questions touch different disciplines, fields and studies.

Hegemony is a concept transgressing borders and definitions of disciplines, and was introduced in aesthetics and social philosophy, sociology of culture and cultural studies, history of culture and art history.

Prof. Dr. Lev Kreft