Marx's Lost Aesthetic Karl Marx and the Visual Arts

Name: Marx's Lost Aesthetic Karl Marx and the Visual Arts
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ISBN: 9780521369794

ISBN-10: 0521369797

ISBN-13: 9780521369794

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Authors: Margaret A. Rose

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This book offers an original and challenging study of Marx's contact with the visual arts, aesthetic theories, and art policies in nineteenth-century Europe. It differs from previous discussions of Marxist aesthetic theory in looking at Marx's views from an art-historical rather than from a literary perspective, and in placing those views in the context of the art practices, theories, and policies of Marx's own time. Dr Rose begins her work by discussing Marx's planned treatise on Romantic art of 1842 against the background of the philosophical debates, cultural policies, and art practices of the 1840s, and looks in particular at the patronage given to the group of German artists known as…

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List price: $45.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/15/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.06" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Visual Art and Aesthetic Theory in Marx's Early Years



Hellenes vs. Nazarenes



Feuerbach and the 'Nazarene' madonna



Marx's lost aesthetic: the early years under Friedrich Wilhelm IV



Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts and the development of a 'productivist' aesthetic



Towards an outline of artistic production, or the 'charm' of a materialist aesthetic



The Russian Saint-Simon: the Artist as Producer in Russia From the 1830s to the 1930s and Beyond



Saint-Simonists and Realists



The Constructivists of the 1920s and the concept of avant-garde



Avant-garde vs. 'Agroculture': problems of the avant-garde -- from Lenin to Stalin and after


Conclusion


Notes


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Index