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🎀 benna 🎀🎩
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started reading 'Aesthetics and Politics', a series of essays and debates by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht and Georg Lukács about art and culture during the World Wars. as fascism is on the rise, i've been reflecting on which artistic movements will be the 'champions' for fascism in the 21st century, and which movements will be vehemently against it. are we already at that point where we need to start thinking and writing about these things? or can we hope that the fascist tendencies in politics and tech are a disgusting blip in our contemporary history and it'll wash over with the next administrations? as a side note, i fear crypto art may be considered in retrospect as the face of fascism as it stands now.
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Naomi
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I forgot where I read it and it's not directly in relation to fascism but the ones who are vibing with it seem to have tyrannical tendencies... And someone somewhere wrote that tyrants in a sense understand the power of art the best. - which of course is very cynical. that's why the tyrant's "forbidden works" lists are things to study. Most Bauhaus and avant-garde artists at some point were on such lists here, I went to see an exhibit once of "entartete Kunst" and it was pretty interesting. Not what you'd think. Some of it very abstract art. Others more on the pretty side where you wonder, wtf? where is the dangerous thought this induces in me supposedly? -- I think it's never a bad moment to start thinking and talking about it. I mean the threat is real as far as I can tell, so there should be at least room to ponder. Also we're electing a new government here on Sunday and I am fairly sure that our right-wing party will do well.
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🎀 benna 🎀🎩
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haha funny you mention the Degenerate Art exhibition. i'm at the very beginning of this book and the first discussions are the debate between Bloch and Lukács about German Expressionism (Der Blaue Reiter, etc.) which I'm guessing are the artworks you saw in the exhibition? Lukács was adamant that it was complicit in the rise of fascism and wasn't an art movement 'for the people' because it was too abstract, too subjective, too woo-woo for his taste and didn't reflect the real lives of working people. Of course, the irony was these artists were the ones included in the Exhibition of Degenerate Art, which Bloch loves to mention in his argument against Lukács lol.
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Naomi
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Oh I have definitely seen art from the guy who painted Der Blaue Reiter. I have even seen blue cows (might not have been the same painter haha) That's funny it's picked up so early into the book. I might need to look for some of their essays too!
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