The rejection of the "aesthetic" view on art has been around for a very long time.
Off the top of my head, there's at least Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art", with rather vivid examples, that most people could relate to.
There's probably been similar views before that, and there's for sure a lot of works after that, among French philosophers for example (for example).
But it seems like society mostly treats art the same way it did approximately 70 years ago. We see the same levels of commercialization (actually, even worse), the same desire among "artists" to do something that the majority of people will appreciate, the same idea of gaining something out of what you do, and the same talk about the subject/object dichotomy, and so on.
How can that be?
Even if people in general don't care about philosophy and such, wouldn't those ideas be adopted through culture in general?
How come there's no resistance to modern art, considering there must be A LOT of smart people familiar with all this?