Despite the provocative title, I don't think Zerzan is singling out art so much as he is citing the oppression inherent in symbolic thought (a redundancy, according to George Lakoff*). Zerzan wasn't the first person to do this, either- Michel Foucault, among others, had him beat by a few years.
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http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lakoff/lakoff_p1.html