Modern Art and Geopolitics: Chronicles of Economic and Cultural Domination

The 21st century turned contemporary art into a full -fledged participant in international relations. The tool for the influence of soft power, it serves the prosperity of the great powers. OD Carros shows how the role of contemporary art in the geopolitical context has changed from 1945 to the present day. In particular, it describes the iconic events of the last decade and their consequences in detail: the globalization of the art market, the development of new information technologies, which made it possible to see how this market is actually arranged, the destruction of the Western monopoly in the field of art due to the emergence of new players from the countries of the East and China , in other words, everything that prevents the standardization and depersonalization of art of the Western world, profitable for the art market and deadly for art itself, as a living organism of culture