Suspected of having been completely assimilated by the commercial industries, it is not so much against these that art must be defended as against a simplistic narrative imposed by a certain sociology of art. When one is finally interested in the artistic practices themselves, it becomes obvious that the art continues to resist: by its politics of the forms.
Laurent Buffet (born in 1971) is a French art theorist, critic, and professor of art philosophy at the École supérieure d'arts et médias de Caen/Cherbourg.
