The objects that nourished an artistic movement vanish when their production economy changes

Evidence

We need only juxtapose the mannequin, as a symbol, with the photographic objects of pop art, the Campbell’s Soup can, the pictures of Marilyn Monroe, or with the visual curiosities of op art; we need only exchange, for that environment of small workshops and store counters, for the marché aux puces and the stalls in the streets, the gasoline stations along American superhighways, the glossy photographs in the magazines, or the cellophane paradise of an American drugstore, in order to realize that the objects of Surrealism are gone without a trace. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 209

Categorization

• XREF: The juxtaposition of Surrealist mannequin vs. Campbell’s Soup can prefigures Jameson’s later book-length argument in Postmodernism; also echoes Benjamin’s arcades project on commodified urban space. — connects to: Fine art loses aesthetic value when removed from its creative location into wealth; Folk art depended on agrarian or simple-commodity social relations that no longer exist; Mass production shifted object value from cult-value to exhibition-value — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 211 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Folk art depended on agrarian or simple-commodity social relations that no longer exist #exemplifies (0.85)
• Industrial-era art loses its concrete human center as elements disperse into contingency. #corroborates (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 346
• Capitalist commodification displaces the aesthetic value of art #expands (0.78) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 69
• Fine art loses aesthetic value when removed from its creative location into wealth #qualifies (0.75)
• In postmodern architecture physical materials cease circulating while traditional infrastructures persist #exemplifies (0.75) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 202
• Mass production shifted object value from cult-value to exhibition-value #qualifies (0.72) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 211
• Conceptual art shifted artistic value from objects to ephemeral processes and ideas #exemplifies (0.72) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1440