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Name Place of birth Place of death Nationality Life Tendency Victor Adler: Prague, Austria-Hungary: Vienna, Austria: Austrian 1852–1918 Social democracy, Austro-Marxism: Theodor W. Adorno [1] Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau Province, Prussia, Germany: Visp, Visp, Valais, Switzerland: German 1903–1969 Frankfurt School, Western Marxism: Louis ...
Arnold Hauser (8 May 1892 – 28 January 1978) was a Hungarian-German art historian and sociologist who was perhaps the leading Marxist in the field. He wrote on the influence of change in social structures on art.
Marxist aesthetics is a theory of aesthetics based on, or derived from, the theories of Karl Marx.It involves a dialectical and materialist, or dialectical materialist, approach to the application of Marxism to the cultural sphere, specifically areas related to taste such as art, beauty, and so forth.
The foundational basis of Marxist sociology is the investigation of capitalist stratification. An important concept of Marxist sociology is "a form of conflict theory associated with…Marxism's objective of developing a positive science of capitalist society as part of the mobilization of a revolutionary working class."
In her 1970 book Meaning and Expression: Toward a Sociology of Art, Hanna Deinhard gives one approach: "The point of departure of the sociology of art is the question: How is it possible that works of art, which always originate as products of human activity within a particular time and society and for a particular time, society, or function -- even though they are not necessarily produced as ...
This is a list of those who contributed to Marxist theory, principally as authors; it is not intended to list politicians who happen(ed) ...
The Mont-Saint-Michel Island, depicted in the famous painting of the same name by James Webb in 1857, is a famous tourist destination. Its history dates back to the 8th century. Bishop Aubert ...
Art (especially posters and murals) was a way to instill party values on a massive scale. Stalin described the socialist realist artists as "engineers of souls". [21] Common images used in socialist realism were flowers, sunlight, the body, youth, flight, industry, and new technology. [18]