Radical perspectives in the arts / edited by Lee Baxandall.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Harmondsworth, England : Penguin Books, 1972Description: 388 pages : black and white photographs ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 0140214232
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 701
LOC classification:
  • HX 521 B38 1972
Online resources:
Contents:
The arts and capitalism: The deserters: the contemporary defeat of fiction / Carl Oglesby -- Art in the one-dimensional society / Herbert Marcuse -- The mirror and the dynamo / Darko Suvin -- The intellectual physiognomy of literary characters / Georg Lukacs -- Prometheus unbound / Carlos Fuentes -- The progressive tradition in bourgeois culture / Arnold Kettle -- Aime Cesaire's a tempest / S. Belhassen -- The misreading of Milton / John Illo --
The arts and socialism: Involved writers in the world / Stefan Heym -- Socialism and literature / Jorge Semprun -- Budapest interview / Roger Garaudy -- Problems of socialist art / John Berger -- Symposium on the question of decadence / Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernst Fischer, Edouard Goldstucker, Milan Kundera -- Of socialist realism / Cultural theory panel attached to the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party -- Words to the intellectuals / Fidel Castro --
The future of culture: the 'end' of 'culture'? : Culture, property and theatre / Hans Mayer -- What is a work of art? / Stephan Morawski -- Spectacles and scenarios: a dramaturgy of radical activity / Lee Baxandall.
Summary: "What is the relation of the arts to capitalism, class values, patronage and property, or to communism, realism and freedom of expression? Are the arts in the West today, and the cultural context within which they are practiced, at a dead end? These are some of the central questions raised in this controversial collection, which includes essays by the most prominent writers on the arts and society today. Drawn from Western and Easter Europe, Great Britain, the United States, Latin America and Africa, they include Herbert Marcuse, Georg Lukacs, John Berger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Fidel Castro and many others." -- From the book jacket.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks The Karl H. Niebyl Collection HX 521 .B38 1972 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML21080027

This text contains black and white photographs corresponding to two of the included chapters, "Problems of Socialist Art" and "Spectacles and Scenarios: A Dramaturgy of Radical Activity." The former includes images of socialist art discussed by the author, and the latter depicts instances of social unrest and radical activism.

The arts and capitalism: The deserters: the contemporary defeat of fiction / Carl Oglesby -- Art in the one-dimensional society / Herbert Marcuse -- The mirror and the dynamo / Darko Suvin -- The intellectual physiognomy of literary characters / Georg Lukacs -- Prometheus unbound / Carlos Fuentes -- The progressive tradition in bourgeois culture / Arnold Kettle -- Aime Cesaire's a tempest / S. Belhassen -- The misreading of Milton / John Illo --

The arts and socialism: Involved writers in the world / Stefan Heym -- Socialism and literature / Jorge Semprun -- Budapest interview / Roger Garaudy -- Problems of socialist art / John Berger -- Symposium on the question of decadence / Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernst Fischer, Edouard Goldstucker, Milan Kundera -- Of socialist realism / Cultural theory panel attached to the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party -- Words to the intellectuals / Fidel Castro --

The future of culture: the 'end' of 'culture'? : Culture, property and theatre / Hans Mayer -- What is a work of art? / Stephan Morawski -- Spectacles and scenarios: a dramaturgy of radical activity / Lee Baxandall.

"What is the relation of the arts to capitalism, class values, patronage and property, or to communism, realism and freedom of expression? Are the arts in the West today, and the cultural context within which they are practiced, at a dead end? These are some of the central questions raised in this controversial collection, which includes essays by the most prominent writers on the arts and society today. Drawn from Western and Easter Europe, Great Britain, the United States, Latin America and Africa, they include Herbert Marcuse, Georg Lukacs, John Berger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Fidel Castro and many others." -- From the book jacket.

From the library of Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.

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