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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.
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 ...
This is a list of those who contributed to Marxist theory, principally as authors; it is not intended to list politicians who happen(ed) to be a member of a nominally communist political party or other organisation.
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 ...
Non-Marxist art historians tend to view communism as a form of totalitarianism that smothers artistic expression and therefore retards the progress of culture. [43] In recent years there has been a reclamation of the movement in Moscow with the addition of the Institute of Russian Realist Art (IRRA), a three-story museum dedicated to preserving ...
Margaret Maruani (born 1954), Tunisian-French sociologist; Gary T. Marx, American sociologist; Karl Marx (1818–1883), German political philosopher, social theorist; Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist; Douglas Massey, American sociologist; Brian Massumi, Canadian social theorist; Humberto Maturana, Chilean biologist and sociologist of ...
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.
Symbolist art exalts the idea, the latent, the subjective; it is an externalization of the artist's self, hence their interest in intangible concepts, religion, mythology, fantasy, legend, as well as hermeticism, occultism and even Satanism. According to the critic Roger Marx they were artists who sought to "give form to the dream." [12]