Editing Abstract art (section)

== Analysis ==
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One socio-historical explanation that has been offered for the growing prevalence of the abstract in modern art—an explanation linked to the name of [[Theodor W. Adorno]]—is that such abstraction is a response to (and a reflection of) the growing abstraction of social relations in [[industrial society]].<ref>David Cunningham, 'Asceticism Against Colour', in ''New Formations'' 55 (2005) p. 110</ref>

[[Frederic Jameson]] similarly sees modernist abstraction as a function of the abstract power of money, equating all things equally as exchange-values.<ref>M. Hardt/K. Weeks eds., ''The Jameson Reader'' (2000) p. 272</ref> The social content of abstract art is then precisely the abstract nature of social existence—legal formalities, bureaucratic impersonalization, information/power—in the world of [[late modernity]].<ref>Cunningham, p. 114</ref>

By contrast, [[Analytical psychology#Post-Jungian approaches|Post-Jungians]] would see the quantum theories with their disintegration of conventional ideas of form and matter as underlying the divorce of the concrete and the abstract in modern art.<ref>Aniela Jaffé, in C. G. Jung ed., ''Man and his Symbols'' (1978) pp. 288–89, 303</ref>

Artist [[Al Capp]] offered the simpler explanation that abstract art was "A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/05/04/abstract-art/ | title=Abstract Art: A Product of the Untalented, Sold by the Unprincipled to the Utterly Bewildered – Quote Investigator® | date=4 May 2013 }}</ref>