9.5 Theses on Art and Class

As a critic, Ben Davis has become painfully aware of the role that class plays in art. This book seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art's most persistent debates, from definitions of political art, to the troubled status of 'outsider' and street art, to the question of how we maintain faith in art itself in a dysfunctional world.