[lbo-talk] Saul Bellow/Reactionary and Religious Art

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Justin:
> More controversially, I recently watched Birth of a
> Nation with my daughter for her film class. A moral
> cesspool, absolutely shocking. Unvarnished and
> unapologetic propaganda for the KKK, laoded with
> racist garbage, no gloves or sugar-coating,
> unflinching about glorifying lynching. Genuinely
> appalling. Nightmarish even. Unquestionably also a
> very great work of art. Still has a reasonble claim to
> being the best film ever made. 

Ditto for the "Triumph of the will."


> 
> On the other hand, good left art is not so easy to
> find. Mayakovsky. Eisenstein. Brecht. Arthur Miller.
> Beethoven. Puccini. But a lot of its preachy and dull,
> liuke Mark Blitzstein's Rock the Cradle.

Milan Kundera, Ingmar Bergman (esp. "Fanny and Alexander"), Bertolucci,
Vittorio De Sica, Pasolini, Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo.....

I think good art is mostly left.

Wojtek