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Position:Home>General - Arts & Humanities > Which Marxist art theoretician best enunciated a cogent synthesis of art and socQuestion: Which Marxist art theoretician best enunciated a cogent synthesis of art and socialist thought?The range of Marxist theoreticians who have tackled the subject of art runs from William Morris's 19th century perspectives on the idea of beautiful, public art, accessible to all, to the sterile conformist hard line introduced by A.A. Zhdanov in Stalinist Russia, and, at the most extreme end of things, Jiang Qing's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China. With such differences of extremity, it is challenging to find an attractively moderate socialist stance on art that can fit into today's modern world. Still, I invite everyone to give their opinions and reasons for them. 2 weeks ago 2 weeks ago Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I don't think you can get much better than Fischer's remarks; it includes purpose, intention and ineffability. But, I don't particularly like the word "should" in so far as changing the world. Maybe have the 'potential,' but I don't see how anyone could prevision its ability to change the 'entire world.' Maybe the world of an audience member. I know Trotsky wrote a book "On Art" which presumes that art should help in evolving a more perfect society, which again, is asking a bit much of art. I like the inherent magic reference of Fischer's because i find it to be the case that art critics and historians never seem to have a grasp of why people make art in the first place. |