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F. D. Klingender 1943

Marxism and Modern Art:
An approach to social realism

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Source: Marxism and Modern Art: An approach to social realism, in the Marxism Today Series, Edited by Professor Benjamin Farrington, M.A., ISBN 085315 322 1, Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, London, 1975;
First published: in 1943;
Transcribed: by Eugene Hirschfeld.

Francis Klingender died young, at the age of 48. He left behind a pioneer work: Art and the Industrial Revolution, and published a stimulating and original work of art criticism entitled Goya in the Democratic Tradition. His exhibition of English political caricature marked the starting point of a long overdue reappraisal of this wealth of English political art. This was only part of his contribution to Marxist thought.

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Contents

Foreword
I. Preface
II. Roger Fry’s Formalism
III. The Palace of Art
IV. Realism: Chernyshevski
V. Realism: Marx and Engels
VI. Relativism
VII. Realism: Lenin
VIII. Conclusion
Bibliography
Footnotes