Foundations of marxist aesthetics / A. Zisʹ ; [translated from the Russian by Katharine Judelson].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: engrus Publication details: Moscow, Russia : Progress Publishers, 1977Description: 297 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780828501934
  • 0828501939
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111.8/5
LOC classification:
  • BH 41 .Z5813 1977
Contents:
Introduction: The subject of Marxist-Leninist aesthetics --
Chapter I. Art as a form of social consciousness: 1. Concerning the nature of art -- 2. Art and reality -- 3. Art and cognition -- 4. Art and ideology --
Chapter II. The image in art: 1. The image: a cardinal category in aesthetics -- 2. The typical and the individual -- 3. The objective and the subjective -- 4. The emotional and the rational -- 5. Artistic truth -- 6. Image and sign --
Chapter III. Content and form in art. 1. Content in art -- 2. Form and art -- 3. The dialectics of content and form in art -- 4. Artistic culture - Sum total of art forms --
Chapter IV. Aesthetic categories and man's artistic apprehension of the world: 1. The nature of aesthetic categories -- 2. The beautiful: A. the essence of the beautiful -- B. The beautiful in art -- 3. The tragic and the comic: A. The tragic -- B. The comic --
Chapter V. Creative mind in socialist art: 1. Creative mind, realism -- 2. Socialist realism -- 3. Commitment to the party and the people in art.
Summary: "This book is designed to cater for a wide range of readers interested in the philosophical, i.e., aesthetic, analysis of the essential aspects of art -- of the process of artistic creativity and works of art as such...Art is discussed in such as way as to ensure that the central concern should always be the artist, his unique individuality, and the special features of his work. At the same time the reader will find examples of artistic analysis of specific phenomena in the history of art...This work is designed to fulfill two parallel functions, those of research and instruction....It is hoped that it will not only promote a unique understanding of the basic principles of Marxist aesthetics, but to a certain point will also provide Marxist criteria for the analysis and evaluation of a wide variety of manifestations of aesthetic activity." -- from the preface
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At the end of this book, Progress Publishers includes excerpts and summaries from upcoming publications.

Introduction: The subject of Marxist-Leninist aesthetics --

Chapter I. Art as a form of social consciousness: 1. Concerning the nature of art -- 2. Art and reality -- 3. Art and cognition -- 4. Art and ideology --

Chapter II. The image in art: 1. The image: a cardinal category in aesthetics -- 2. The typical and the individual -- 3. The objective and the subjective -- 4. The emotional and the rational -- 5. Artistic truth -- 6. Image and sign --

Chapter III. Content and form in art. 1. Content in art -- 2. Form and art -- 3. The dialectics of content and form in art -- 4. Artistic culture - Sum total of art forms --

Chapter IV. Aesthetic categories and man's artistic apprehension of the world: 1. The nature of aesthetic categories -- 2. The beautiful: A. the essence of the beautiful -- B. The beautiful in art -- 3. The tragic and the comic: A. The tragic -- B. The comic --

Chapter V. Creative mind in socialist art: 1. Creative mind, realism -- 2. Socialist realism -- 3. Commitment to the party and the people in art.

"This book is designed to cater for a wide range of readers interested in the philosophical, i.e., aesthetic, analysis of the essential aspects of art -- of the process of artistic creativity and works of art as such...Art is discussed in such as way as to ensure that the central concern should always be the artist, his unique individuality, and the special features of his work. At the same time the reader will find examples of artistic analysis of specific phenomena in the history of art...This work is designed to fulfill two parallel functions, those of research and instruction....It is hoped that it will not only promote a unique understanding of the basic principles of Marxist aesthetics, but to a certain point will also provide Marxist criteria for the analysis and evaluation of a wide variety of manifestations of aesthetic activity." -- from the preface

"This book represents the fruit of many years lecturing to various sectors of the art public an students at art schools. In its present form it is addressed to readers abroad : for this reason the author held it important not merely to consider the substance of aesthetics, but also, within certain limits, to demonstrate how it treated in Soviet aesthetic writings. " -- from the preface

Translated from Russian into English.

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