'Capitalist production is hostile to certain branches of intellectual labour, for instance, poetry and art'. As sciece becomes a productive force, so art becomes a commodity. This commodity is an article of consumption, which differs from other commdities in that its value is determined by adventitious factors, such as changes of fashion and fincial speculation on the part of wealthyart collectors and entrepreneurs.
The freedom of the artist in capitalist society is the freedom of the market.
-George Thomson
