Marxist aesthetics

Authors

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. (in Russian)
- Marx / Engels. Über Kunst und Literatur. Eine Sammlung aus ihren Schriften, Berlin: Henschel, 1948, 610 pp, of the 1938 edition; 6th ed., 1953; 2 Vols, ed. M. Kliem, Berlin, 1967-68. (in German). .
- Literature and Art: Selections from Their Writings, New York: International Publishers, 1947, 154 pp.
- On Literature and Art, ed. B. Krylov, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976, 520 pp.
Marx & Engels on Literature and Art: A Selection of Writings, eds. Stefan Morawski and Lee Baxandall, St. Louis: Telos Press, 1973, 175 pp; New York: International General, 1974, 179 pp; Telos Press, 1983; rev.ed. by Macdonald Daly, Nottingham: CCCP, 2006, Preview.

Mikhail Lifshitz (Михаил Лифшиц), Karl Marks. Iskusstvo i obshestvennyy ideal [Карл Маркс. Искусство и общественный идеал], 1933; Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya literatura, 1972, 471 pp; 1979, 471 pp. (in 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.
- Karl Marx und die Ästhetik, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1960; 2nd ed., 1967. (in German)
- Marx és az esztétika, Gondolat, 1966. (in Hungarian)
- La filosofía del arte de Karl Marx, Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1981. (in Spanish)
Stefan Morawski, "The Aesthetic Views of Marx and Engels", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 28:3 (Spring 1970), pp 301-314.
Margaret A. Rose, Marx's Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual Arts, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 216 pp; 1988. Commentary, Review.

Walter Benjamin, Versuche über Brecht, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966.
- Understanding Brecht, London/New York: Verso, 1998. (in English)
Bertolt Brecht, Schriften zur Kunst und Literatur, 3 vols., Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1967-68. (in 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.

Peter Bürger, Theorie der Avantgarde, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974, 147 pp. (in German)
- Theory of the Avant-Garde, trans. Michael Shaw, University of Minnesota Press, 1984, 134 pp.
- Teoría de la vanguardia, trans. Jorge García, 1987; 3rd ed., 2000. (in Spanish)
- Teoria da vanguarda, trans. Ernesto Sampaio, 1993. (in Portuguese)
Terry Eagleton, Marxism and Literary Criticism, 1976.
Herbert Marcuse, Die Permanenz der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte marxistische Ästhetik: Ein Essay, Munich: Hanser, 1977, 77 pp. (in German)
- The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics, trans. Herbert Marcuse and Erica Sherover, Boston: Beacon Press, 1978, 88 pp.
- La dimension esthétique, trans. Didier Coste, Paris: Seuil, 1979, 82 pp. (in French)
- La dimensione estetica e altri scritti: un'educazione politica tra rivolta e trascendenza, Milan: Guerini, 2002. (in Italian)
- La dimensión estética: Crítica de la ortodoxia marxista, Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2007. (in Spanish)

Maynard Solomon (ed.), Marxism and Art: Essays Classic and Contemporary, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1979.