Of course, there have been great leftist artists but most of them have not been in the direct service of ideology. De Sica was a name that Wojtek mentioned; he was severely criticized by certain Communists for something like, "Miracle in Milan", even though it is one of the greatest leftist movies ever. Add to the names already mentioned that of Picasso, Aragon, Eluard (and many of the other Surrealists, Breton, etc), Sartre...I like his plays and novels better than his philosophical writings, etc, etc, and that is just getting started with the French.
Thomas
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> >
> > 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.
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> Milan Kundera, Ingmar Bergman (esp. "Fanny and
> Alexander"), Bertolucci,
> Vittorio De Sica, Pasolini, Diego Rivera, Frieda
> Kahlo.....
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> I think good art is mostly left.
>
> Wojtek
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