The Marxist theory of art: [an introductory survey]

Contents

Origins of an Aesthetic. Marx and Engels on Art ; Clarifying the Aesthetic : Engels and Plekhanov -- Socialist Realism and the Social Command. Culture and Art in Lenin ; Proletcult, Formalism and Trotsky ; The Leftists and the Social Command ; Party Policies and the Emergence of Socialist Realism ; The Evolution of Socialist Realism -- The German Debates. Lukacs' Realism ; Brecht against Lukacs ; Benjamin, Adorno and Critical Realism -- Socialist Realism in China. Lu Hsun and the Garrets of Shanghai ; Mao and the Revolutionary Bases ; Cultural Struggle within Socialism -- Post-War Developments. Writing and Commitment ; Goldmann's Genetic Structuralism ; Althusser and Gramsci : the importance of ideology ; Barthes, Myth and Signifier ; Tel Quel and the "Unreadable" -- Marxism and Popular Culture. The Culture Industry ; Television and Film ; Popular Music -- British and American Developments. Romanticism and Marxism ; Caudwell and the Thirties ; Some American Themes ; New Directions in British Marxism.