Uncover Art & Artists

Paradoxically, such significance is sometimes attributed to objects neither meant as art, nor especially meant to be perceived aesthetically – for example, votive, devotional, commemorative or utilitarian artefacts. Furthermore, aesthetic interests may be eclipsed by dubious funding practices and social kudos. When mixed with celebrity and dangerous forms of narcissism, they will egregiously affect artistic authenticity. These interests could be overriding, and spawn merchandise masquerading as art.

Their chief, Pol Pot, used his newfound energy to initiate one of the darkest periods of the twentieth century. Agriculture was collectivized, resulting in widespread famine, whereas residents of cities were marched into the countryside and forced to work underneath slavelike conditions. Militants focused anyone Art suspected of connections to capitalism or foreign cultures or of deviating from the Khmer Rouge’s excessive interpretation of Marxism. The party’s rule ended in 1979, when invading Vietnamese forces put in a proxy …