"The German Left and Aesthetic Politics examines the articulation of contending materialist aesthetic practices within the ideological fractures of the German Left between the Second and Third International. It is hinged on the major literary critical contributions of Franz Mehr…
"The German Left and Aesthetic Politics examines the articulation of contending materialist aesthetic practices within the ideological fractures of the German Left between the Second and Third International. It is hinged on the major literary critical contributions of Franz Mehr…
"While the Third Communist International (Comintern) supported nationalist revolution in China, Soviet writers and film-makers traveled to China, met with Chinese students in Moscow, and sought to reimagine China for a Soviet audience as the next site of world revolution. Their …
"While the Third Communist International (Comintern) supported nationalist revolution in China, Soviet writers and film-makers traveled to China, met with Chinese students in Moscow, and sought to reimagine China for a Soviet audience as the next site of world revolution. Their …
"While the Third Communist International (Comintern) supported nationalist revolution in China, Soviet writers and film-makers traveled to China, met with Chinese students in Moscow, and sought to reimagine China for a Soviet audience as the next site of world revolution. Their …
by Cronan, Todd
fromCultural studies and Marxism
"This book is a synthesis of Rodchenko, Brecht and Eisenstein. Amongst the most influential artists of the interwar period, and among the most influential political artists of the century, between them they tried to develop a socialist theory of art, and a red aesthetic centered…
by Cronan, Todd
fromCultural studies and Marxism
by Cronan, Todd
fromCultural studies and Marxism
"This book is a synthesis of Rodchenko, Brecht and Eisenstein. Amongst the most influential artists of the interwar period, and among the most influential political artists of the century, between them they tried to develop a socialist theory of art, and a red aesthetic centered…
by Cronan, Todd
fromCultural studies and Marxism
"This book is a synthesis of Rodchenko, Brecht and Eisenstein. Amongst the most influential artists of the interwar period, and among the most influential political artists of the century, between them they tried to develop a socialist theory of art, and a red aesthetic centered…
"The whole of Marx's project confronts the narrow concerns of political philosophy by embedding it in social philosophy and a certain understanding of the aesthetic. From those of aesthetic production to the "poetry of the future" (as Marx writes in the Eighteenth Brumaire), fro…
An original and challenging study of Marxist aesthetic theory from an art-historical perspective.
"This book sets out to clarify the nature of the aesthetic as a category within the theory of historical materialism. It opens with an analysis of Marx's brief discussion of Greek art in the Grundrisse, moves through a series of readings of specifically bourgeois texts, includin…
"This book sets out to clarify the nature of the aesthetic as a category within the theory of historical materialism. It opens with an analysis of Marx's brief discussion of Greek art in the Grundrisse, moves through a series of readings of specifically bourgeois texts, includin…
