Marxism and art : essays classic and contemporary /
Solomon, Maynard,
Marxism and art : essays classic and contemporary / edited with historical and critical commentary by Maynard Solomon. - Sussex, England : Harvester Press Limited, c1979. - xvii, 649, xxvi page ; 21 cm.
Reprint of the 1974 edition published by Vintage Books, New York. Includes a bibliography based on the authors that contributed to this collection in addition to a supplemtary reading section (pages 611 - 626), sources for selection (pages 627 - 641), and a Marx and Engles citation section (pages 643 - 649).
Includes bibliography (pages 589 - 609) and index.
Section one. Marx and Engels / General introduction : Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels / A reader in Marxist aesthetics selected texts -- The prerequisites of history -- History -- Forms of Consciousness -- Revolution and utopia -- Art and society -- Maynard Solomon -- Karl Marx and Friederich Engels -- Section two. The second generation / William Morris / Art, labor and socialism / Antonio Labriola / Historical Materialism / Forms of consciousness / Franz Mehring / A note on taste / Lessing and the drama / Karl Kautsky / Art and the conception of God in ancient Israel / Georgi Plekhanov / The role of the individual in history / Art and social life / Labor, play, and art / Rosa Luxemburg / On Russian literature / Stagnation and progress of Marxism Maynard Solomon -- William Morris -- Maynard Solomon -- Antonio Labriola -- Antonio Labriola -- Maynard Solomon -- Franz Mehring -- Franz Mehring -- Maynard Solomon -- Karl Kautsky -- Maynard Solomon -- Georgi Plekhanov -- Georgi Plekhanov -- Georgi Plekhanov -- Maynard Solomon -- Rosa Luxemburg -- Rosa Luxemburg -- Section three. the Bolsheviks / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin / Leo Tolstoy as the mirror of the Russian revolution / L.N. Tolstoy / Leo Tolstoy and his epoch / Party organization and party literature / On the question of dialectics / Leon Trotsky / Art and the party / Creativity and class / Art and class / Nikolai Bukharin / What is art / Poetry / Anatoly Lunacharsky / Alexander Blok / Dostoyevsky / Maynard Solomon -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Maynard Solomon -- Leon Trotsky -- Leon Trotsky -- Leon Trotsky -- Maynard Solomon -- Nikolai Bukharin -- Nikolai Bukharin -- Maynard Solomon -- Anatoly Lunacharsky -- Anatoly Lunacharsky -- Section four. Zhdanovism / General Introduction : Zhdanovism / Maxim Gorki / Art and myth / Yuri Daydov / The Tolstoyan view of art/ Mao Tse-Tung / Literature and revolution / Jean Paul Sartre -- The novel and reality / W.E.B. Du Bois / The nature of intellectual freedom / Maynard Solomon -- Maynard Solomon -- Maxim Gorki -- Maynard Solomon -- Yuri Daydov -- Maynard Solomon -- Mao Tse-Tung / Maynard Solomon -- Jean Paul Sartre -- Maynard Solomon -- W.E.B. Du Bois Section five. the return to Marxist humanism / Antonio Gramsci / Marxism and modern culture / Ernst Fischer / Productive memory / Sidney Finklestein / Art as humanization / Béla Balázs / The visible man / The face of man / Mikhail Bakhtin / Laughter and freedom / Maynard Solomon -- Antonio Gramsci -- Maynard Solomon -- Ernst Fischer -- Maynard Solomon -- Sidney Finklestein -- Maynard Solomon -- Béla Balázs -- Béla Balázs -- Maynard Solomon -- Mikhail Bakhtin -- Section six. the sources and functions of art / Christopher Caldwell / Illusion and reality / George Thomson / Pity and fear / Improvisation and inspiration / Bertolt Brecht / Epic theater / Theodor W. Adorno and Hans Eisler / The sociology and the musician / Eye, ear and the function of music / Music and the film / Georg Lukács / The ideology of modernism / Shakespeare and historicism / Introduction to a monograph of aesthetics / Max Raphael / The elements of the paleolithic world / Notes on the nature of art / Rembrandt: "Joseph intercepts Pharaoh's dreams" Art, opiate, transcendence / Maynard Solomon -- Christopher Caldwell / Maynard Solomon -- George Thomson -- George Thomson -- Maynard Solomon -- Bertolt Brecht -- Maynard Solomon -- Theodor W. Adorno and Hans Eisler -- Theodor W. Adorno and Hans Eisler -- Theodor W. Adorno and Hans Eisler -- Maynard Solomon -- Georg Lukács -- Georg Lukács -- Georg Lukács -- Maynard Solomon -- Max Raphael -- Max Raphael -- Max Raphael -- Max Raphael -- Section seven. the trajectory of art / General Introduction: Marxism and utopia / Friedrich Engels / The overthrow of the matriarchy / Harry Slochower / Literature and society / Malraux - Man's Fate / Existentialism and myth / Alick West / Form / André Breton / Surrealism and Historical Materialism Action and dream / The cultural heritage -- L'amour fou / Herbert Marcuse / The images of Orpheus and Narcissus / A note on dialectic / Walter Benjamin / Fairy-tale and myth / Dialectics and dream / The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Louis-Phillipe, or, the interior / Three theses on the Philosophy of history / André Malraux / The work of art / Ernst Bloch / On 'The Threepenny Opera' / The meaning of utopia / Utopia in archetypes and works of art / Maynard Solomon -- Maynard Solomon -- Friedrich Engels -- Maynard Solomon -- Harry Slochower -- Harry Slochower -- Harry Slochower -- Maynard Solomon -- Alick West -- Maynard Solomon -- André Breton -- André Breton -- André Breton -- André Breton -- Maynard Solomon -- Herbert Marcuse -- Herbert Marcuse -- Maynard Solomon -- Walter Benjamin -- Walter Benjamin -- Walter Benjamin -- Walter Benjamin -- Walter Benjamin -- Maynard Solomon -- André Malraux -- Maynard Solomon -- Ernst Bloch -- Ernst Bloch -- Ernst Bloch --
"Among the recent anthologies the most extensive, instructive and stimulating is Maynard Solomon's. . . Most readers will find this Marxism much more sympathetic and close to the great humanist tradition of Western culture than were the old shibboleths. . . The information, explanation and analysis of the last two sections are of exquisite quality. . . By revealing the Marxist dialectic of aspiration and hope, of revolutionary action and messianic outlook, and of a permanent transcendancy of what. . . is presented as socialist achievement [it] contributes genuinely to the humanistic strivings of our bitter and tumultuous time." -- Stefan Morawski, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
0855278579 0855271280 (pbk.)
79002063
Communism and art.
Art and society
HX 521 / .S63 1979
335.43/8/7011
Marxism and art : essays classic and contemporary / edited with historical and critical commentary by Maynard Solomon. - Sussex, England : Harvester Press Limited, c1979. - xvii, 649, xxvi page ; 21 cm.
Reprint of the 1974 edition published by Vintage Books, New York. Includes a bibliography based on the authors that contributed to this collection in addition to a supplemtary reading section (pages 611 - 626), sources for selection (pages 627 - 641), and a Marx and Engles citation section (pages 643 - 649).
Includes bibliography (pages 589 - 609) and index.
Section one. Marx and Engels / General introduction : Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels / A reader in Marxist aesthetics selected texts -- The prerequisites of history -- History -- Forms of Consciousness -- Revolution and utopia -- Art and society -- Maynard Solomon -- Karl Marx and Friederich Engels -- Section two. The second generation / William Morris / Art, labor and socialism / Antonio Labriola / Historical Materialism / Forms of consciousness / Franz Mehring / A note on taste / Lessing and the drama / Karl Kautsky / Art and the conception of God in ancient Israel / Georgi Plekhanov / The role of the individual in history / Art and social life / Labor, play, and art / Rosa Luxemburg / On Russian literature / Stagnation and progress of Marxism Maynard Solomon -- William Morris -- Maynard Solomon -- Antonio Labriola -- Antonio Labriola -- Maynard Solomon -- Franz Mehring -- Franz Mehring -- Maynard Solomon -- Karl Kautsky -- Maynard Solomon -- Georgi Plekhanov -- Georgi Plekhanov -- Georgi Plekhanov -- Maynard Solomon -- Rosa Luxemburg -- Rosa Luxemburg -- Section three. the Bolsheviks / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin / Leo Tolstoy as the mirror of the Russian revolution / L.N. Tolstoy / Leo Tolstoy and his epoch / Party organization and party literature / On the question of dialectics / Leon Trotsky / Art and the party / Creativity and class / Art and class / Nikolai Bukharin / What is art / Poetry / Anatoly Lunacharsky / Alexander Blok / Dostoyevsky / Maynard Solomon -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Maynard Solomon -- Leon Trotsky -- Leon Trotsky -- Leon Trotsky -- Maynard Solomon -- Nikolai Bukharin -- Nikolai Bukharin -- Maynard Solomon -- Anatoly Lunacharsky -- Anatoly Lunacharsky -- Section four. Zhdanovism / General Introduction : Zhdanovism / Maxim Gorki / Art and myth / Yuri Daydov / The Tolstoyan view of art/ Mao Tse-Tung / Literature and revolution / Jean Paul Sartre -- The novel and reality / W.E.B. Du Bois / The nature of intellectual freedom / Maynard Solomon -- Maynard Solomon -- Maxim Gorki -- Maynard Solomon -- Yuri Daydov -- Maynard Solomon -- Mao Tse-Tung / Maynard Solomon -- Jean Paul Sartre -- Maynard Solomon -- W.E.B. Du Bois Section five. the return to Marxist humanism / Antonio Gramsci / Marxism and modern culture / Ernst Fischer / Productive memory / Sidney Finklestein / Art as humanization / Béla Balázs / The visible man / The face of man / Mikhail Bakhtin / Laughter and freedom / Maynard Solomon -- Antonio Gramsci -- Maynard Solomon -- Ernst Fischer -- Maynard Solomon -- Sidney Finklestein -- Maynard Solomon -- Béla Balázs -- Béla Balázs -- Maynard Solomon -- Mikhail Bakhtin -- Section six. the sources and functions of art / Christopher Caldwell / Illusion and reality / George Thomson / Pity and fear / Improvisation and inspiration / Bertolt Brecht / Epic theater / Theodor W. Adorno and Hans Eisler / The sociology and the musician / Eye, ear and the function of music / Music and the film / Georg Lukács / The ideology of modernism / Shakespeare and historicism / Introduction to a monograph of aesthetics / Max Raphael / The elements of the paleolithic world / Notes on the nature of art / Rembrandt: "Joseph intercepts Pharaoh's dreams" Art, opiate, transcendence / Maynard Solomon -- Christopher Caldwell / Maynard Solomon -- George Thomson -- George Thomson -- Maynard Solomon -- Bertolt Brecht -- Maynard Solomon -- Theodor W. Adorno and Hans Eisler -- Theodor W. Adorno and Hans Eisler -- Theodor W. Adorno and Hans Eisler -- Maynard Solomon -- Georg Lukács -- Georg Lukács -- Georg Lukács -- Maynard Solomon -- Max Raphael -- Max Raphael -- Max Raphael -- Max Raphael -- Section seven. the trajectory of art / General Introduction: Marxism and utopia / Friedrich Engels / The overthrow of the matriarchy / Harry Slochower / Literature and society / Malraux - Man's Fate / Existentialism and myth / Alick West / Form / André Breton / Surrealism and Historical Materialism Action and dream / The cultural heritage -- L'amour fou / Herbert Marcuse / The images of Orpheus and Narcissus / A note on dialectic / Walter Benjamin / Fairy-tale and myth / Dialectics and dream / The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Louis-Phillipe, or, the interior / Three theses on the Philosophy of history / André Malraux / The work of art / Ernst Bloch / On 'The Threepenny Opera' / The meaning of utopia / Utopia in archetypes and works of art / Maynard Solomon -- Maynard Solomon -- Friedrich Engels -- Maynard Solomon -- Harry Slochower -- Harry Slochower -- Harry Slochower -- Maynard Solomon -- Alick West -- Maynard Solomon -- André Breton -- André Breton -- André Breton -- André Breton -- Maynard Solomon -- Herbert Marcuse -- Herbert Marcuse -- Maynard Solomon -- Walter Benjamin -- Walter Benjamin -- Walter Benjamin -- Walter Benjamin -- Walter Benjamin -- Maynard Solomon -- André Malraux -- Maynard Solomon -- Ernst Bloch -- Ernst Bloch -- Ernst Bloch --
"Among the recent anthologies the most extensive, instructive and stimulating is Maynard Solomon's. . . Most readers will find this Marxism much more sympathetic and close to the great humanist tradition of Western culture than were the old shibboleths. . . The information, explanation and analysis of the last two sections are of exquisite quality. . . By revealing the Marxist dialectic of aspiration and hope, of revolutionary action and messianic outlook, and of a permanent transcendancy of what. . . is presented as socialist achievement [it] contributes genuinely to the humanistic strivings of our bitter and tumultuous time." -- Stefan Morawski, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
0855278579 0855271280 (pbk.)
79002063
Communism and art.
Art and society
HX 521 / .S63 1979
335.43/8/7011