Marxists on art?

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Sep 11 07:16:50 PDT 1999



>A friend has asked me to suggest some works by Marxists on art, or art
>related... Steve

Ernst Block. _The Principle of Hope_ and _The Utopian Function of Art and Literature_.

Walter Benjamin. _Illuminations_.

_Aesthetics and Politics_ (Block, "Discussing Expressionism"; Georg Lukacs, "Realism in the Balance"; Bertolt Brecht, "Against Georg Lukacs"; Benjamin, "Conversations with Brecht"; Theodor Adorno, "Letters to Walter Benjamin"; Benjamin, "Reply"; Adorno, "Reconciliation under Duress"; & Fred Jameson, "Reflections in Conclusion").

Louis Althusser. "The 'Piccolo Teatro'; Bertolazzi and Brecht," _For Marx_.

Sergei Eisenstein. _Film Form_.

_Brecht on Theatre_.

Victor Shklovsky. _A Theory of Prose_ and "Art as Technique," _Modern Criticism and Theory_.

Franco Moretti. _Signs Taken for Wonders_.

_The Eagleton Reader_.

Guy Debord. _Society of the Spectacle_.

Roland Barthes. _Mythologies_.

Ben Watson. _Art, Class, & Cleavage_. (odd stuff)

Lisa Stokes & Michael Hoover. _City on Fire_. (good stuff)

Yoshie



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