The social hisotry of art: models and concepts
I'm not sure if I can actually bring myself to do this reading:

"While the cult of autonomy might have originated with the emancipation of bourgeois subjectivity from aristocratic and religious hegemony, autonomy also saw the theorcatic and heirarchical structures of that patronage as having their own reality. The modernist aesthetic of autonomy thus constituted the social and subjective sphere from within which an opposition against the totality of interested activites and instrumentalized forms of experience could be articulated in artistic acts of open negation and refusal. Paradoxically, however, these acts served as opposition and - in their ineluctable condition as extreme exceptons from the universal rule - they confirmed the regime of total instrumentalization."






Uhhhhhh. I didn't know what 'ineluctable' meant until I attempted at this essay. Boo, theory, boo.

In other news, someone's principle viola! Yay.