"Unless the artist works actively to discourage it, this focus on the primacy of individual transformation implies (1) that the individual is morally or emotionally flawed, (2) that this flaw bears a casual relation to their current (economically socially, or creatively) “disempowered” status and, (3) that the artist is in a position to remedy this flaw, and to provide the subject with what Will would call the “social capital necessary for civilized living”."
Grant Kester, “Aesthetic Evangelists” from Afterimage
