Theory of the Avant-garde
- ISBN-10
- 0719014530
- ISBN-13
- 9780719014536
- Category
- Aesthetics
- Pages
- 135
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1984
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Author
- Peter Bürger
Description
Herbert Marcuse's essay " The Affirmative Character of Culture ” can be read as an attempt at such an application . 18 Marcuse outlines the global determination of art's function in bourgeois society , which is a contradictory one : on ...
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