There is no doubt that, since its inception, Marxism has influenced aspects of art and literature in the West.

Were there any directly Marxist works created prior to 1920 and the rise of Leninism (which eventually brought forth the Soviet art agenda)?

Or, perhaps, are the works we consider Marxist merely being represented as such through revisionist Marxist art history and literary criticism?

10/30/2005 6:47:34 PM

this seems like a homework assignment in disguise

10/30/2005 7:07:15 PM

nah... though it did arise from class discussions

this would be too simplistic of an assignment for my Art and Political Theory class... I just want the background info so I can speak intelligently in class

10/30/2005 7:14:03 PM

10/30/2005 7:32:08 PM

I'm thinking stuff like Malevich and Tatlin

10/30/2005 7:34:36 PM

Akira Kurosawa was a marxist at one time

10/30/2005 8:09:28 PM

marxism was very popular in Japan prior to the military takeover of the government in the early 1930s.

i dont know where to find any online, but prof. ambaras had some good examples of marxist art from early 20th century japan that i remember seeing.

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10/30/2005 9:29:45 PM

Marxist art? Wokka wokka wokka!

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10/30/2005 9:58:38 PM

what about literature?

10/31/2005 10:13:53 AM

Right now I'm reading the novel Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. It deals with the birth of the inteligencia among the younger generations of the mid-1800s, many of which were the first Russian marxists. The main character is a Nihilist, but the novel is definately inspired by the influx of these new ideologies into Russia in the mid-1800s.

10/31/2005 11:06:58 AM

i'll have to check the name but there's a great painting i saw while in rome by an italian artist...i'll check that when i get home

10/31/2005 11:49:25 AM

awesome... thanks guys!

10/31/2005 12:09:21 PM

i could post some pictures of dead people killed by your admired heroes for speaking out against the travesty of marxism

you people are either sheep or just stupid

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10/31/2005 3:39:52 PM

who are my heros?

I've always liked this guy:

10/31/2005 3:45:51 PM

jefferson was a dick

I've always been a fan of FDR

10/31/2005 8:43:11 PM

is it really Marxist art?

or art putting forth marxist themes?

i mean you could have a marxist message breathing through neo-classism, but does that make it marxist art or neo-classism?

for example: there's really no difference in USA vs Nazi poster art in the 1940s stylewise

10/31/2005 8:48:57 PM

i forgot to check my art book with all the kiddies coming last night...i'll remember at lunch

11/1/2005 9:35:38 AM

everyone likes Jefferson


except commies like Kris

11/1/2005 9:40:14 AM

^In Soviet Russia Jefferson hates you!

11/1/2005 9:49:47 AM

11/1/2005 9:54:09 AM

and federalists

11/1/2005 11:29:06 AM

Quote :

"is it really Marxist art? or art putting forth marxist themes? i mean you could have a marxist message breathing through neo-classism, but does that make it marxist art or neo-classism?"

that's something I've been wondering

has Marxism been an artistic movement or simply a philosophy that informed many artists who worked in other styles?

11/1/2005 1:12:38 PM

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"These works, in Malevich’s words, attempt to “free art from the burden of object.” Through this non-objective approach these works separate themselves from the representational burden of earlier styles by avoiding the class associations related to certain imagery. The reduction of art to geometric simplicity purges art of bourgeois, indeed all, political influence. "

I'm writing about suprematism from a Marxist perspective... I guess this is my thesis

11/1/2005 4:24:43 PM