- He first encountered aesthetics woking with cars
- Relates car culture to the art world
- "like artists in the nineteenth century, these [car] manufacturers began designing visual obsolescence into their products by institutionalizing style change."
- Author evolved his aesthetic sense through customizing a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, a bronze-lacquered 1937 Chevrolet pickup and other GM models and that an acquaintance of his began his art education by pondering lowriders in El Paso, Texas
- Artist's "personal style" could lead to the quick "visual obsolescence" of one's artwork much like the auto industry
- American commerce is an art market because they create desire
- Art market has been taken over by the commercial world
- Those "promoting rebellion, proposing outrageous reconfigurations and different ideas" were able to cash in.
Is the modern art market still following the stagnate car culture?
What influence has the internet had on the visual obsolescence of artwork?
