Art Religion or Business: Or Art in the Age of Relative Prosperity, Leisure, and Consumerism An Interview with Wolfgang Ullrich
Art Religion or Business: Or Art in the Age of Relative Prosperity, Leisure, and Consumerism An Interview with Wolfgang Ullrich

Summary/Abstract: Philosophers and art theorists have been asking questions about contemporary art for the last two hundred years, and they are still searching for answers. Wolfgang Ullrich is one of them. He is a professor of art and media theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Germany, and has authored numerous publications investigating art as a new symbol of social status and as a means to criticize globalization, the culture of consumerism, and the prosperity phenomenon. He specializes in the history and critique of defining the arts.

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