Radical abstraction’s easy co-optation does not justify a return to pleasant representationalism.

Evidence

The fact that radically abstract paintings can be hung in official reception rooms without causing offence does not, however, justify any restoration of a representationalism that is pleasant a priori, even if Che Guevara is selected for the purposes of reconciliation with the object. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 683

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to critiques of recuperation and to Adorno’s refusal of committed, content-friendly art as a remedy. — connects to: Critique of modernist discourse does not presume one right way of seeing — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 628; Philosophy’s own conceptual method blocks access to the non-conceptual objects it seeks — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1592
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Critique of modernist discourse does not presume one right way of seeing — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 628; Philosophy’s own conceptual method blocks access to the non-conceptual objects it seeks — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1592

Broader Connections

• Philosophy’s own conceptual method blocks access to the non-conceptual objects it seeks #complicates (0.74) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1592