Materialien zur Ausstellung 4 – Funktionen bildender Kunst in unserer Gesellschaft

Year: 1970 Type: Loose-leaf collection Languages: German Format: DIN A4, stapled ISBN: none

Exhibition materials 4 – Functions of fine art in our society
The basic research working group set out to explore the links between the aesthetic and society. Fine art, the group argued, should not be viewed in isolation, set apart from prevailing economic conditions and the ideology of the capitalist system, of which it is part. To accompany the exhibition, the work group published a several collections of materials intended to supplement and document the preceding lectures and events. This is the fourth collection of materials, on the theme of “The role of the aesthetic in the pseudo-resolution of contradictions in capitalism”. The photocopied folder contains the chapter on “The Labor Process and the Process of Valorization” and parts of the chapter “Constant Capital and Variable Capital” from Karl Marx’s Capital as well as the essays “Zur Kritik der Warenästhetik” (On the critique of the commodity aesthetic) by Wolfgang Fritz Haug and “Der Begriff der Entfremdung in den ‘Grundrissen’ von Karl Marx” (The concept of alienation in Marx’s “Grundrisse”) by Friedrich Tomberg.

Work group: Daghild Bartels, Christian Deutschmann, Silvia Kluge, Dieter Ruckhaberle, Barbara Scholtyssek, Monika Sieveking, Krista Tebbe, Gerd Wulff