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'''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, etc. Marxists believe that economic and social conditions, and especially the class relations that derive from them, affect every aspect of an individual's life, from religious beliefs to legal systems to cultural frameworks. From one classic Marxist point of view, the role of art is not only to represent such conditions truthfully, but also to seek to improve them (social/socialist realism), however, this is a contentious interpretation of the limited but significant writing by Marx and Engels on art and especially on aesthetics.
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[[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]].]]
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[[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].]]
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===Marx and Engels on art and aesthetics===
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* ''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}}
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** ''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}}
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** ''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}}
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** ''Sobre la literatura y el arte'', trans. Pedro Peralta, La Plata: Calomino, 1946, 235 pp. {{es}}
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** ''Literature and Art: Selections from Their Writings'', New York: International Publishers, 1947, 154 pp. {{en}}
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** ''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}}
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** ''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}}
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** ''O umetnosti i književnosti: izbor iz njihovih spisa'', ed. Mikhail Lifshitz, trans. Moša Pijade, a.o., Belgrade: Kultura, 1960. {{sc}}
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** ''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}}
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** ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/art/ On Literature and Art]'', ed. B. Krylov, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976, 520 pp. {{en}}
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* ''[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}}
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; On Marx's aesthetics
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* 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}}
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** ''[[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}}
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** ''Karl Marx und die Ästhetik'', Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1960, 176 pp; 2nd ed., 1967, 179 pp. {{de}}
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** ''Marx és az esztétika'', Gondolat, 1966. {{hu}}
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** ''Marx'ın sanat felsefesi'', trans. Murat Belge, Istanbul: Ararat Yayınevi, 1968, 151 pp; repr., Ankara: Kuzey, 1984, 121 pp. {{tr}}
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** ''Karl Marx y la estética'', trans. Malena Barro, La Habana: Arte y Literatura, 1976, 254 pp. {{es}}
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** ''La filosofía del arte de Karl Marx'', México: Era, 1981, 182 pp. {{es}}
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** ''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}}
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** ''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}}
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* 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}}
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* 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}}
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* Ali Alizadeh, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/01317e4c-6b11-4526-91e9-cb6e0905de4d Marx and Art]'', Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. {{en}}
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===German debates in the 1930s-50s===
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* Walter Benjamin, ''Versuche über Brecht'', Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966. {{de}}
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** ''[[Media:Benjamin_Walter_Understanding_Brecht.pdf|Understanding Brecht]]'', London/New York: Verso, 1998. {{en}}
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* Bertolt Brecht, ''Schriften zur Kunst und Literatur'', 3 vols., Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1967-68. {{de}}
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* 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}}
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; Responses
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* {{a|Buerger1974}} Peter Bürger, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11134 Theorie der Avantgarde]'', Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974, 147 pp. {{de}}
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11134 Theory of the Avant-Garde]'', trans. Michael Shaw, University of Minnesota Press, 1984, 134 pp. {{en}}
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11134 Teoría de la vanguardia]'', trans. Jorge García, 1987; 3rd ed., 2000. {{es}}
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11134 Teoria da vanguarda]'', trans. Ernesto Sampaio, 1993. {{pt}}
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** "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}}
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* Terry Eagleton, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=7E1F07DAECC28BF1BA3FDF519B0A7915 Marxism and Literary Criticism]'', University of California Press, 1976. {{en}}
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* Herbert Marcuse, ''Die Permanenz der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte marxistische Ästhetik: Ein Essay'', Munich: Hanser, 1977, 77 pp. {{de}}
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** [[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}}
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** ''La dimension esthétique'', trans. Didier Coste, Paris: Seuil, 1979, 82 pp. {{fr}}
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** ''La dimensione estetica e altri scritti: un'educazione politica tra rivolta e trascendenza'', Milan: Guerini, 2002. {{it}}
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** ''[[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}}
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===Anthologies===
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* Maynard Solomon (ed.), ''Marxism and Art: Essays Classic and Contemporary'', Sussex: Harvester Press, 1979. {{en}}
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* 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}}
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* 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}}
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===Other writings===
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* Mikhail Lifshitz, ''Krizis bezobraziya. Ot kubizma do pop-art'' [Кризис безобразия. От кубизма до поп-арт], Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1968, 199+[16] pp. {{ru}}
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** '' 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}}
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** ''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}}
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** ''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}}
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* César Vallejo, ''[http://www.biblioteca.fundacionbbva.pe/libros/libro_000013.pdf El arte y la revolución]'' [1932], Lima: Mosca Azul, 1973. {{es}}
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* 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}}
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* 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}}
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* Francis D. Klingender, ''Goya in the Democratic Tradition'', London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1948. {{en}}
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* Gen Doy, ''[[Media:Doy_Gen_Materializing_Art_History_1998.pdf|Materializing Art History]]'', Oxford: Berg, 1998, 271 pp.  {{en}}
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* 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}}
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* 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}}
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* 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}}
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* 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}}
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===Bibliographies===
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* Andrew Hemingway, [http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199920105/obo-9780199920105-0023.xml "Marxism and Art"], ''Oxford Bibliographies'', 2014. {{en}}
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===More===
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?tag=marxism+aesthetics Publications on marxist aesthetics on Monoskop Log]
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* [http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/lit_crit/index.htm Collection of writings of literary criticism in the Marxists Internet Archive]
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==See also==
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* [[Karl Marx]]
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* [[Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel#Selected_passages_on_aesthetics|Selected passages from Hegel on aesthetics]]
  
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Authors, journals[edit]

Literature[edit]

Marx & Engels on Literature and Art: A Selection of Writings, 1973, Log, PDF.
Margaret A. Rose, Marx's Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual Arts, 1984, Log.

Marx and Engels on art and aesthetics[edit]

  • 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. (Russian)
    • 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. (French)
    • Sobre la literatura y el arte, ed. Jean Fréville, Buenos Aires: Problemas, 1940, 244 pp; new ed., exp., La Habana: Política, 1965, 471 pp. (Spanish)
    • Sobre la literatura y el arte, trans. Pedro Peralta, La Plata: Calomino, 1946, 235 pp. (Spanish)
    • Literature and Art: Selections from Their Writings, New York: International Publishers, 1947, 154 pp. (English)
    • 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. (German)
    • 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. (Chinese)
    • O umetnosti i književnosti: izbor iz njihovih spisa, ed. Mikhail Lifshitz, trans. Moša Pijade, a.o., Belgrade: Kultura, 1960. (Serbo-Croatian)
    • 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. (Armenian)
    • On Literature and Art, ed. B. Krylov, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976, 520 pp. (English)
On Marx's aesthetics
  • Mikhail Lifshitz (Михаил Лифшиц), 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 Karl Marks. Iskusstvo i obshestvennyy ideal [Карл Маркс. Искусство и общественный идеал], Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya literatura, 1972, 471 pp; 1979, 471 pp. (Russian)
    • The Philosophy of Art of Karl Marx, trans. Ralph B. Winn, ed. Angel Flores, New York: Critics Group, 1938; London: Pluto, 1973. Via, Review. (English)
    • Karl Marx und die Ästhetik, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1960, 176 pp; 2nd ed., 1967, 179 pp. (German)
    • Marx és az esztétika, Gondolat, 1966. (Hungarian)
    • Marx'ın sanat felsefesi, trans. Murat Belge, Istanbul: Ararat Yayınevi, 1968, 151 pp; repr., Ankara: Kuzey, 1984, 121 pp. (Turkish)
    • Karl Marx y la estética, trans. Malena Barro, La Habana: Arte y Literatura, 1976, 254 pp. (Spanish)
    • La filosofía del arte de Karl Marx, México: Era, 1981, 182 pp. (Spanish)
    • 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. (Chinese)
    • 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. (Persian)

German debates in the 1930s-50s[edit]

  • Walter Benjamin, Versuche über Brecht, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966. (German)
  • Bertolt Brecht, Schriften zur Kunst und Literatur, 3 vols., Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1967-68. (German)
  • Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukács, Aesthetics and Politics, trans. ed. Ronald Taylor, New Left Books, 1977; Verso, 1980, 221 pp. (English)
Responses
  • Peter Bürger, Theorie der Avantgarde, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974, 147 pp. (German)
    • Theory of the Avant-Garde, trans. Michael Shaw, University of Minnesota Press, 1984, 134 pp. (English)
    • Teoría de la vanguardia, trans. Jorge García, 1987; 3rd ed., 2000. (Spanish)
    • Teoria da vanguarda, trans. Ernesto Sampaio, 1993. (Portuguese)
    • "Teorie avantgardy", in Bürger, Teorie avantgardy. Stárnutí moderny. Stati o výtvarném umění, Prague: VVP AVU, 2015. [1] (Czech)

Anthologies[edit]

Other writings[edit]

  • Mikhail Lifshitz, Krizis bezobraziya. Ot kubizma do pop-art [Кризис безобразия. От кубизма до поп-арт], Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1968, 199+[16] pp. (Russian)
    • 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. (German)
    • 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). (Czech)
    • The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art, intro. & trans. David Riff, Leiden: Brill, 2019, ix+153+[37] pp. [2] (English)

Bibliographies[edit]

More[edit]

See also[edit]

Links[edit]


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