Critical Hegemony and Aesthetic Acculturation

enable its art practitioners to promulgate its fascinating but ethnocentric cultural artifacts as High Culture on a universal scale.According to these shared criteria, then, those creative products dominated by a concern with political and social injustice, or economic deprivation, or that use traditional, or "ethnic", or "folk" media of expression, are often not only not "good" art; they are not art at all.They are, rather, "craft", "folk art", or "popular culture"; and individuals for whom these concerns are dominant are correspondingly excluded from the art context.