TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matthew Beaumont
AU  - Andrew Hemingway
AU  - Esther Leslie
AU  - John Roberts
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - As Radical as Reality Itself
T2  - Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st Century
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102400
N2  - This collection of essays, by a number of established scholars and artists, proposes new directions for Marxist cultural theory and the criticism of modern visual culture. It addresses a diverse range of topics, including the state and revolution, Communist and post-Communist aesthetics, Situationist thought and the avant-garde, subjectivity and commodification, and the politics and problems of contemporary artistic practice. The contributions also consider several other pressing questions in the visual arts, from the practice of digital culture to appropriations of critical theory, from the relations of art and the spectacle to architecture in the age of global modernity. This book on Marxism and art is not offered in a spirit of nostalgia: on the contrary, it testifies to the continuing vitality and confidence of historical materialist thought in the field of cultural theory and practice in the 21st century.
KW  - Marxismus, Ästhetik, Marxist Art, Visual Culture, 21st century, Situationism
LA  - English
ER  -