ABSTRACT
Art can change values only partially. Extending the idea that art comes out of its status of exceptionality, and contributes to our ordinary lives, we will go to the encounter of how artists grasp specific issues, such as the ecological destruction of the Earth, denouncing the social and geographical injustices and irremediable losses. In this chapter, we will look again to the effects of political and social changes on art-making practices. American critic Clement Greenberg famously said in 1939: ‘Today we no longer look toward socialism for a new culture – as inevitably as one will appear, once we do have socialism. Today we look to socialism simply for the preservation of whatever living culture we have right now’ (Greenberg, 1939).
