I expect you’ll be hearing more from me about Herbert Marcuse’s slim 1978 monograph The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics in the coming weeks. In it, Marcuse makes an argument for l’art pour l’art, for the deliberately difficult art work, as the only truly revolutionary and progressive form of artistic endeavor, an [...]
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:48AM on September 6, 2011