an essay that opposes the discourses of justification led by artists and other agents in the field of art with a materialist conception of the history of cultural institutions. The author argues for an abolitionist approach towards art institutions against more reformist, corporatist and formalist approaches of emancipation that still prevail in the art sector.
Guillaume Maraud is researcher at the University of Caen Normandie and at ésam Caen, with a background in visual arts and theory of law. His research examines the discourses and praxis of institutional change.
