View source for Marxist aesthetics

==Authors, journals==
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==Literature==
[[Image:Baxandall_Morawski_eds_Marx_and_Engels_on_Literature_and_Art.jpg|thumb|350px|''Marx & Engels on Literature and Art: A Selection of Writings'', 1973, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12040 Log], [[Media:Baxandall_Morawski_eds_Marx_and_Engels_on_Literature_and_Art.pdf|PDF]].]]
[[Image:Rose_Margaret_Marxs_Lost_Aesthetic.jpg|thumb|350px|Margaret A. Rose, ''Marx's Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual Arts'', 1984, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11862 Log].]]
===Marx and Engels on art and aesthetics===
* ''Karl Marks i Fridrikh Engels ob iskusstve'' [Карл Маркс и Фридрих Энгельс об искусстве], eds. Mikhail Lifshitz (Михаил Лифшиц) and Franc Shiller (Франц Шиллер), Moscow, 1933; expanded ed., 1938; further expanded ed., 2 vols., 1957; 1967; 1976; 1983. {{ru}}
** ''Sur la littérature et l'art'', ed., trans. & intro. Jean Fréville, Paris: Sociales Internationales, 1936, 205 pp; new ed., intro. Maurice Thorez, Paris: Sociales, 1954, 411 pp. {{fr}}
** ''Sobre la literatura y el arte'', ed. Jean Fréville, Buenos Aires: Problemas, 1940, 244 pp; new ed., exp., La Habana: Política, 1965, 471 pp. {{es}}
** ''Sobre la literatura y el arte'', trans. Pedro Peralta, La Plata: Calomino, 1946, 235 pp. {{es}}
** ''Literature and Art: Selections from Their Writings'', New York: International Publishers, 1947, 154 pp. {{en}}
** ''Marx / Engels. Über Kunst und Literatur. Eine Sammlung aus ihren Schriften'', ed. Mikhail Lifshitz, forew. Fritz Erpenbeck, Berlin: Henschel, 1948, xv+610 pp (trans. of the 1938 ed.); 6th ed., 1953; new ed., 2 vols., ed. M. Kliem, Berlin, 1967-1968. {{de}}
** ''Ma ke si, en ge si lun wen xue yu yi shu'' [马克思, 恩格斯论文学与艺术], ed. Jean Fréville, trans. Daoqian Wang, Shanghai: Ping ming chu ban she, 1951, 311 pp; new ed., exp., 2 vols., Beijing: Ren min wen xue chu ban she, 1982, 516 & 412 pp. {{cn}}
** ''O umetnosti i književnosti: izbor iz njihovih spisa'', ed. Mikhail Lifshitz, trans. Moša Pijade, a.o., Belgrade: Kultura, 1960. {{sc}}
** ''K. Markʻsě ev F. Ēngelsě arvesti masin'' [Կ. Մարքսը եվ Ֆ. Էնգելսը արվեստի մասին], eds. Mikhail Lifshitz and Franc Shiller, Erevan: Hayastani Petakan Hratarakchʻutʻyun, 1963, 357 pp. {{hy}}
** ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/art/ On Literature and Art]'', ed. B. Krylov, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976, 520 pp. {{en}}

* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12040 Marx & Engels on Literature and Art: A Selection of Writings]'', eds. Stefan Morawski and Lee Baxandall, intro. Stefan Morawski, St. Louis: Telos Press, 1973, 175 pp; new ed., corr. & exp., New York: International General, 1974, 179 pp; repr., Telos Press, 1983; rev.ed., ed. Macdonald Daly, Nottingham: CCCP, 2006, [http://www.new-ventures.net/PDF/Preview/DOMA01%20preview.pdf Excerpt]. {{en}}

; On Marx's aesthetics
* Mikhail Lifshitz (Михаил Лифшиц), ''[[Media:Lifshitz_Mikhail_K_voprosu_o_vzglyadakh_Marksa_na_iskusstvo_1933.pdf|K voprosu o vzglyadakh Marksa na iskusstvo]]'' [К вопросу о взглядах Маркса на искусство], Moscow/Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1933, 131 pp; 2nd ed., 1960; 3rd ed. as ''[http://www.gutov.ru/lifshitz/texts/marks/marx-sod.htm Karl Marks. Iskusstvo i obshestvennyy ideal]'' [Карл Маркс. Искусство и общественный идеал], Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya literatura, 1972, 471 pp; 1979, 471 pp. {{ru}}
** ''[[Media:Lifshitz_Mikhail_The_Philosophy_of_Art_of_Karl_Marx_1973.pdf|The Philosophy of Art of Karl Marx]]'', trans. Ralph B. Winn, ed. Angel Flores, New York: Critics Group, 1938; London: Pluto, 1973. [http://ciml.250x.com/archive/marx_engels/on_me/mikhail-lifshitz-the-philosophy-of-art-of-karl-marx.pdf Via], [http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/birchall/1974/02/artmarx.htm Review]. {{en}}
** ''Karl Marx und die Ästhetik'', Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1960, 176 pp; 2nd ed., 1967, 179 pp. {{de}}
** ''Marx és az esztétika'', Gondolat, 1966. {{hu}}
** ''Marx'ın sanat felsefesi'', trans. Murat Belge, Istanbul: Ararat Yayınevi, 1968, 151 pp; repr., Ankara: Kuzey, 1984, 121 pp. {{tr}}
** ''Karl Marx y la estética'', trans. Malena Barro, La Habana: Arte y Literatura, 1976, 254 pp. {{es}}
** ''La filosofía del arte de Karl Marx'', México: Era, 1981, 182 pp. {{es}}
** ''Makesi lun yi shu he she hui li xiang'' [马克思论艺术和社会理想], trans. Yuanmai Wu, Beijing: Ren min wen xue chu ban she, 1983, 516 pp. {{cn}}
** ''Falsafah-'i hunar az didgāh Mārks: bā jastārhā-yi darbāri-yi taʼsīr aydiyūlūgī bar hunar w. i. Linīn, Lūyī Āltūsar, Atīn Bālībār, Pīyar māsharī'', trans. Majīd Madadī, Tehran: Āgāh, 1381 [2003], 267 pp. {{fa}}

* Stefan Morawski, [[Media:Morawski_Stefan_1970_The_Aesthetic_Views_of_Marx_and_Engels.pdf|"The Aesthetic Views of Marx and Engels"]], ''The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism'' 28:3 (Spring 1970), pp 301-314. {{en}}
* Margaret A. Rose, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11862 Marx's Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual Arts]'', Cambridge University Press, 1984, 216 pp; 1988. [http://marxist-theory-of-art.blogspot.com/2010/03/key-figures-in-marxist-aesthetics-saint.html Commentary], [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1016/0191-6599%2887%2990117-3?journalCode=rhei20 Review]. {{en}}
* Ali Alizadeh, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/01317e4c-6b11-4526-91e9-cb6e0905de4d Marx and Art]'', Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. {{en}}

===German debates in the 1930s-50s===
* Walter Benjamin, ''Versuche über Brecht'', Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966. {{de}}
** ''[[Media:Benjamin_Walter_Understanding_Brecht.pdf|Understanding Brecht]]'', London/New York: Verso, 1998. {{en}}
* Bertolt Brecht, ''Schriften zur Kunst und Literatur'', 3 vols., Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1967-68. {{de}}
* Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukács, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2091 Aesthetics and Politics]'', trans. ed. Ronald Taylor, New Left Books, 1977; Verso, 1980, 221 pp. {{en}}

; Responses
* {{a|Buerger1974}} Peter Bürger, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11134 Theorie der Avantgarde]'', Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974, 147 pp. {{de}}
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11134 Theory of the Avant-Garde]'', trans. Michael Shaw, University of Minnesota Press, 1984, 134 pp. {{en}}
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11134 Teoría de la vanguardia]'', trans. Jorge García, 1987; 3rd ed., 2000. {{es}}
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11134 Teoria da vanguarda]'', trans. Ernesto Sampaio, 1993. {{pt}}
** "Teorie avantgardy", in Bürger, ''Teorie avantgardy. Stárnutí moderny. Stati o výtvarném umění'', Prague: VVP AVU, 2015. [http://vvp.avu.cz/publikace/peter-burger-teorie-avantgardy-starnuti-moderny-stati-o-vytvarnem-umeni/] {{cz}}

* Terry Eagleton, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=7E1F07DAECC28BF1BA3FDF519B0A7915 Marxism and Literary Criticism]'', University of California Press, 1976. {{en}}
* Herbert Marcuse, ''Die Permanenz der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte marxistische Ästhetik: Ein Essay'', Munich: Hanser, 1977, 77 pp. {{de}}
** [[Media:Marcuse_Herbert_The_Aesthetic_Dimension_Toward_a_Critique_of_Marxist_Aesthetics_1978.pdf|''The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics'']], trans. Herbert Marcuse and Erica Sherover, Boston: Beacon Press, 1978, 88 pp. {{en}}
** ''La dimension esthétique'', trans. Didier Coste, Paris: Seuil, 1979, 82 pp. {{fr}}
** ''La dimensione estetica e altri scritti: un'educazione politica tra rivolta e trascendenza'', Milan: Guerini, 2002. {{it}}
** ''[[Media:Marcuse_Herbert_La_dimension_estetica_Critica_de_la_ortodoxia_marxista.pdf|La dimensión estética: Crítica de la ortodoxia marxista]]'', Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2007. {{es}}

===Anthologies===
* Maynard Solomon (ed.), ''Marxism and Art: Essays Classic and Contemporary'', Sussex: Harvester Press, 1979. {{en}}
* Armand Mattelart, Seth Siegelaub (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=19323 Communication and Class Struggle, 1: Capitalism, Imperialism]'', New York: International General, and Bagnolet: International Mass Media Research Center (IMMRC), 1979, 445 pp. {{en}}
* Armand Mattelart, Seth Siegelaub (eds.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=15233 Communication and Class Struggle, 2: Liberation, Socialism]'', New York: International General, and Bagnolet: International Mass Media Research Center (IMMRC), 1983, 438 pp. {{en}}

===Other writings===
* Mikhail Lifshitz, ''Krizis bezobraziya. Ot kubizma do pop-art'' [Кризис безобразия. От кубизма до поп-арт], Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1968, 199+[16] pp. {{ru}}
** '' Krise des Häßlichen: vom Kubismus zur Pop-Art'', trans. Helmut Barth, Dresden: Verl. der Kunst, 1971, 171+[32] pp; 2nd ed., rev., 1972, 160+[32] pp. {{de}}
** ''Krize modernismu'', ed. Vladimír Dostál, trans.Věra Jungmannová a Vladimír Dostál, afterw. Dušan Konečný, Prague: Odeon, 1975, 284+[56] pp. Selection of texts taken from ''Modernizm'' (1973), ''Krizis bezobraziya'' (1968), and ''Iskusstvo i sovremennyy mir'' (1973). {{cz}}
** ''The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art'', intro. & trans. David Riff, Leiden: Brill, 2019, ix+153+[37] pp. [https://brill.com/view/title/36543?language=en] {{en}}

* César Vallejo, ''[http://www.biblioteca.fundacionbbva.pe/libros/libro_000013.pdf El arte y la revolución]'' [1932], Lima: Mosca Azul, 1973. {{es}}
* Francis D. Klingender, ''[http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/lit_crit/klingender/ Marxism and Modern Art: An approach to Social Realism]'', London: International Publishers, 1943; rev.ed. Benjamin Farrington, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1975. {{en}}
* Francis D. Klingender, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=19005 Art and the Industrial Revolution]'', London: N. Carrington, 1947; rev.ed. Arthur Elton, Evelyn, Adams and Mackay, 1968; St Albans: Paladin, 1975, xv+272 pp. Reviews: [http://www.jstor.org.sci-hub.st/stable/41364437 Andrews] (JRSA). {{en}}
* Francis D. Klingender, ''Goya in the Democratic Tradition'', London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1948. {{en}}
* Gen Doy, ''[[Media:Doy_Gen_Materializing_Art_History_1998.pdf|Materializing Art History]]'', Oxford: Berg, 1998, 271 pp.  {{en}}
* Martin Puchner, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10951 Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes]'', Princeton University Press, 2005, 336 pp. {{en}}
* Andrew Hemingway (ed.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=BB1AA9CC250F1C2605D0280442660818 Marxism and the History of Art: From William Morris to the New Left Marxism and Culture]'', Pluto Press, 2006. {{en}}
* Warren Carter, Barnaby Haran, Frederic J. Schwartz (eds.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=FDE6EC79C6897FFFC5DA9620A1CA5947 Renew Marxist Art History]'' London: Art/Books, 2013. {{en}}
* Larne Abse Gogarty, Andrew Hemingway (eds.), [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/606c08d69ff37c211c2e81c8 ''Kunst und Politik'' 21: "Keywords for Marxist Art History Today"], Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019, 214 pp. {{en}}

===Bibliographies===
* Andrew Hemingway, [http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199920105/obo-9780199920105-0023.xml "Marxism and Art"], ''Oxford Bibliographies'', 2014. {{en}}

===More===
* [http://monoskop.org/log/?tag=marxism+aesthetics Publications on marxist aesthetics on Monoskop Log]
* [http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/lit_crit/index.htm Collection of writings of literary criticism in the Marxists Internet Archive]

==See also==
* [[Karl Marx]]
* [[Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel#Selected_passages_on_aesthetics|Selected passages from Hegel on aesthetics]]

==Links==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_aesthetics Wikipedia]


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