ART AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Roger Taylor

Author:Roger Taylor [Taylor, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Roger L.Taylor
Published: 2013-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

Despite these strong sounding statements a living relationship with the art of the past is preserved in Soviet society (the heritage of ‘serious’ music, classical ballet, collections of paintings etc.) though such art has nothing to do with the standards of Socialist Realism, and further, and more importantly, the contemporary art which passes the standards is solidly set in the forms and genres of mainstream bourgeois art. This latter point is so if only because any hint of modernism or avant-gardism in art is prohibited. In fact, the charge against Soviet art as made by Western Marxists and endorsed by discontented East European Marxists (e.g. Lukacs), is that far from being revolutionary it is decadent, bourgeois art. Those who make this attack in so far as they have some sympathy for the more modernist features of bourgeois art (i.e. modern developments in Western art) are seen from the Soviet side as supporting what is decadent in bourgeois art. They are seen, in other words, as supporting art forms which have given up any pretensions to satisfy in real practice the ‘high’ ideals of art ideology (i.e. the grand bourgeois theory of art). Both groups are, then, comprehended by the spectrum of bourgeois art.

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