study task 2 - essay planning triangulation

what do I want to focus on in my first essay?

Cultural products are the all time favourite playthings of the powerful, tossed from wealthy statesman such as Gauis Cilnius Maecenas, who set up the poet Horace in a writing estate in 33 B.C.., and from rulers like Francis 1 and the Medichi family, whose love of the arts bolstered the status of Renaissance painters in the sixteenth century. Through the degree of meddling varies, our culture was built on compromises between notions of public good and the personal political and financial ambitions of the rich.

Are cultural products the playthings of the powerful?

Do the rich control art?

Our culture was built on compromise but does it continue to thrive on it?

Has the control of culture shifted from the powerful to the public? If it has then why?

Should artists focus on making money or making a difference? Where do we find the balance?

how to structure essay

- talk about how the rich used to control art and why, ways of seeing, claude levi straus

- has this shifted? yes - photography, print press, John Martin

- argue against john martain ideas of galleries reference white cube, how do the wealthy control the art market, guardian article land art

- compromise between public good and financial ambitions of the rich. who are the rich now? discuss how brands and marketing have taken over the rich. still one section controlling us still controlled by money - reference no logo

- we still have the capacity to create work for the public good - fuck committees, first things first, site specific art

- can we ever escape the power of money