Examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideological function. This book considers art produced under totalitarianism, Socialism, and post-Communism.

He also considers today's mainstream Western art - which he finds behaving more and more according to the norms of ideological propaganda: produced and exhibited for the masses at international exhibitions, biennials, and festivals. Modern art, Groys argues, demonstrates its power by appropriating the iconoclastic gestures directed against itself - by positioning itself simultaneously as an image and as a critique of the image. In "Art Power", Groys examines this fundamental appropriation that produces the paradoxical object of the modern artwork.