They, too, can obtain general significance only through a profound reflection of the particular. ‘What matters in art is the contemplation of form’ and ‘in proportion as art gets purer, the number of people to whom it appeals gets less’, say the formalists. … And it also means that the aesthetic value of a work of art must in some way be related to the effect it produces, not merely in its own time, but as long as it survives. Night Workers. His major works included Art and the Industrial Revolution (1947) , Goya in the Democratic Tradition (1948) and his posthumously published Animals in Art and Thought (1971). The significance of muralism in the United States has received considerable attention in art historical treatments of the period.5 The modernisation and revitalisation of American wall painting was the result of a number of cultural factors, perhaps most importantly the establishment from 1933 of federal funding for public art under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal administration.6 Scant mention can be found of the influence of the American example for artists in England, yet renewed interest in muralis… Tennyson became the Laureate of the Victorians because, on the surface at least, he spurned the blandishments of art for art’s sake and accepted the ‘mission’ of teaching and consoling his fellow men. 11. David A. Siqueiros: 'Towards a Transformation of the Plastic Arts' 1934. Andre Breton: from the First Manifesto of Surrealism 1924. Of all the critics who have helped to mould our present standards of appreciation none can equal the influence of Roger Fry, the founder of British post-impressionism. I also conceived that the spectator in contemplating the form must inevitably travel in the opposite direction along the same road which the artist had taken, and himself feel the original emotion. The impact of the Industrial Revolution on modern economic, social, and political life is unquestionably profound. I admit that there is also a queer hybrid art of sense and illustration, but it can only arouse particular and definitely conditioned emotions, whereas the emotions of music and pure painting and poetry when it approaches purity are really free abstract and universal.’ [2]. And in so far as he communicates the image of his perception to his fellow men, the artist is morally responsible for it. You see the sense of poetry is analogous to the things represented in painting. Francis Klingender: ‘Content and Form in Art' 1935. See Francis D. Klingender, Marxism and Modern Art: An Approach to Social Realism (1943; repr. For Fry seeks the aesthetic element precisely in the contemplation of form apart from its purpose and divorced from the content which it forms. Adolf Hitler: Speech Inaugurating the ′Great Exhibition of German Art′ 1937. 11. Francis Klingender: 'Content and Form in Art' 1935. Klingender "Content and Form in Art" (437-9). It is not difficult to explain this seeming paradox; for if one examines Tennyson’s work one soon discovers that the ‘others’ with whom he returned to his Palace were neither the people at large, nor the ‘few elect’, but the Victorian middle class. I mean this, that since the imaginative life comes in the course of time to represent more or less what mankind feels to be the completest expression of its own nature, the freest use of its innate capacities, the actual life may be explained and justified by its approximation here and there, however partially and inadequately, to that freer and fuller life.’ [6], It is interesting to note that Fry was by no means critical of the moral standards of his own age, when he wrote this passage. In this respect the images created by art resemble beautiful objects in nature. A genuine front-line newsreel sequence far surpasses even the best war film in dramatic power and intensity. Dec. 31st, 2020. To quote Fry’s own account, the discussion stimulated by the appearance of ‘post-impressionism’ revealed ‘that some artists who were peculiarly sensitive to the formal relations of works of art... had almost no sense of the emotions’ of life which he had supposed them to convey. Realism as Critique. He himself later summarized its main conclusions as follows: ‘I conceived the form of a work of art to be its most essential quality, but I believed this form to be the direct outcome of an apprehension of some emotion of actual life by the artist, although, no doubt, that apprehension was of a special and peculiar kind and implied a certain detachment. Francis Klingender: ‘Content and Form in Art' 1935. Art in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas Charles Harrison , Paul J. Nevertheless, he bases his analysis exclusively on what he takes to be the psychology of the individual, or rather of ‘man’ in the abstract. (Francis Donald). If this were true, there could be no art: what else is the work of art but the creative reproduction of the artist’s perception? David A. Siqueiros: 'Towards a Transformation of the Plastic Arts' 1934. These theories are not, however, the products of perverse reasoning – they merely reflect what has actually been happening in English art since about 1910. Chernyshevski’s conception, on the other hand, anticipates the theories of William Morris and of all modern exponents of ‘functional’ design. 11. Klingender's father, Louis Henry Weston Klingender (1861-1950), a native of Liverpool, was a painter of animals, a subject which the younger Klingender would return to himself late in life. ‘The beautiful’, says Chernyshevski, ‘is an individual, live object and not an abstract thought’. Grant Wood: from Revolt Against the City 1935. … They differ in degree, but not in kind. To quote his own words: ‘Art, then, is an expression and a stimulus of the imaginative life, which is separated from actual life by the absence of responsive action. Hence it would seem that to obtain an inspiring and significant image the artist should endeavour to create an authentic, documentary image of the living reality before him. True, such conclusions and ideas are much less complete and universal than life. Roger Fry’s Formalism. Klingender was a British Marxist whose life spanned the first half of the twentieth century. Although, in his view, beauty is that which evokes life and although art reproduces what interests man in life, it by no means follows that art reproduces only what is beautiful in nature. Leon Trotsky: from Literature and Revolution 1922–23. He might attempt to compose an ideal figure embodying courage, toughness, a weather-beaten appearance, all those general qualities, in short, which the experience of desert warfare has imprinted on each member of that veteran force. Realism as Critique. Satta Hashem, email to Suheyla Takesh, November 25, 2017. Revised and extended edition, edited and revised by Arthur Elton. But whereas the Victorians tolerated a realistic attitude to Nature and society only if it was overlayed with sentimentality, as in Dickens or in the later work of George Cruikshank, the tradition of uncompromising realism continued to advance in nineteenth-century France and Russia. This mythical element is progressively destroyed by the advance of science which, consequently, results in a decline of art. Compared with the degradation of art, when it served as the mouthpiece of Victorian cant, the doctrine of art for art’s sake was a great step forward. Forms and shapes can be thought of as positive or negative. In 1909 Fry still seems to have felt this, for he was prepared to accept the idealist point of view that life, far from being the touchstone of aesthetic value, should, on the contrary, itself be judged by the standards of art: ‘It might even be’, he wrote, ‘that from this point of view we should rather justify actual life by its relation to the imaginative, justify nature by its likeness to art. The statement that it is the function of art to reproduce everything that interests man in life implies that the particular image created must be ‘of interest to man generally and not merely to the artist’. Dec. 31st, 2020. Adolf Hitler: Speech Inaugurating the 'Great Exhibition of German Art' 1937. Far from being more significant, the general can only be a pale reflection of the particular, an insubstantial shadow of its rich and vital individuality. In the first place, moral responsibility only begins where the type of action Fry calls instinctive – i.e. In his pictures or novels, poems or plays such a man will bring up or solve some problem with which life faces thinking men and women. However, most typically, form is defined by a combination of these factors, as is the case in this print by Max Ernst. It freed the artist from complete subservience to a false morality and enabled him to preserve something, at least, of his integrity. Wood This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s. Within the oldest art forms can be seen Adolf Hitler: Speech Inaugurating the 'Great Exhibition of German Art' 1937. Francis Klingender, Evelyn Antal, John P Harthan. … But in reproducing life, the artist also, consciously or unconsciously, expresses his opinion of it, and it is by virtue of this that ‘art becomes a moral activity of man.’. According to this, the purpose of art is 'de-familiarization'. "This pioneer investigation remains one of the most original and arresting accounts of the impact of the new industry and technology upon the landscape of England and the English mind. It is by now a commonplace that individual and … what is politics? The statement ‘this is beautifully painted’ means that the artist has succeeded in expressing what he intended to convey. I mean the general intellectual and instinctive reaction to their surroundings of those men of any period whose lives rise to complete self-consciousness, their view of the universe as a whole and their conception of their relations to their kind.’ [8]. Though greatly accentuated since the beginning of the twentieth century, this isolation of the artists was not new, and in Fry’s case, too, the tendency of divorcing art from life was already implicit in his theory of 1909. Whereas in ordinary life perception is followed by responsive action – the sight of a bull rushing towards us makes us turn to instant flight – Fry claims that artistic perception is of the kind we experience when we see the bull, not in the flesh, but on the screen of a cinema: we enjoy the emotion of fear because we need not act upon it. But he was rudely shaken out of his complacency in social matters by the events of 1914-18. Art and the Industrial Revolution. Form in relation to positive and negative space . Chernyshevski’s conception of the moral function of art has nothing in common with that of Tennyson: ‘The attitude of some people to the phenomena of life consists almost entirely in a preference for certain aspects of reality and avoidance of others. The aesthetic assumptions of realism were first systematically defined by N. G. Chernyshevski, a contemporary of Balzac and Daumier, Gogol, Aksakov and Shchedrin, whose thesis Life and Aesthetics was published in 1853. While rejecting the escape into pure art in the name of morals, he made his art the handmaid of an even baser form of escape, the escape of insincerity. Life as a teacher, as a channel of knowledge, is more full and accurate, even more artistic than all the works of all the scientists and poets. Form may also be defined by change in texture, even when hue and value remain essentially consistent. Marxism and Modern Art: An approach to social realism by F. D. Klingender 1943. Artistic contemplation, being removed from action, is thereby released from all moral ties. Francis Klingender: 'Content and Form in Art' 1935. 37–84. Unable to comprehend the causes of the collapse, he was glad to escape into what now appeared to him as a ‘revolutionary advance’ in art – i.e. Posted on May 17, 2017 in Faculty Picks. ‘It would seem that the definitions “Beauty is life,” “Beautiful are all things in which we see life as, according to our conceptions, it should be,” “Beautiful is an object which expresses life or reminds us of it” give a satisfactory explanation of all the ways in which the feeling of beauty is roused in us.’ [18]. It was not, therefore, to the conflicts and the squalor of the real world that Tennyson returned, but to the sham idealism with which the Victorian squire and business man sought to conceal the contradictions of that world. For the moment let us note that it entails a great impoverishment: by restricting aesthetic feeling to ‘pure’ form, i.e. Leon Trotsky: from Literature and Revolution 1922-23. Structures and circuits begin to appear, surfacing a place for gathering and conjuring. Stuart Davis and Clarence Weinstock: 'Abstract Painting in America', 'Contradictions in Abstractions' and 'A Medium of 2 Dimensions' 1935. Their conception of good art and of its relation to life is thus on their own admission incompatible with the present need of reuniting art and the people. Adolf Hitler: Speech Inaugurating the 'Great Exhibition of German Art' 1937. (source: Nielsen Book Data) Summary I conceived the form and the emotion which it conveyed as being inextricably bound together in the aesthetic whole.’ [1]. Francis Klingender: ′Content and Form in Art′ 1935. Form may also be defined by change in texture, even when hue and value remain essentially consistent. But from about 1870 onwards, as the pressure increased, this critical attitude was more and more replaced by assumed indifference, the artist retreated into ever remoter realms of ‘purely’ aesthetic experience, and the further he retreated, the more rapidly did the sweets he coveted turn to ashes in his mouth. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1975); and Francis D. Klingender, “Content and Form in Art,” in Art in Theory, 1900-2000, ed. To rid himself of that ‘obsession’ was the main preoccupation of his later thought. In other words, it refers to the form and not to the content of the artist’s work. Klingender & Alsop dissolved their partnership in 1920 as a result of Alsop’s ill health, and Klingender formed a new partnership with R B Hamilton. Secondly, moreover, it is untrue that artistic perception itself is never followed by responsive action. Such works will be, as it were, composed on themes set by life.’. Conscious that works of art inspire different kinds of emotion, he attempts, by introspection, to isolate one specific emotion which is common to all these various compounds, on the assumption that this ‘constant’ factor would reveal the ‘substance’, the irreducible atom, so to speak, of aesthetic experience. Laurie Taylor. … André Breton: from the First Manifesto of Surrealism 1924. Animals in art and thought. Francis Klingender: 'Content and Form in Art' 1935. London : Paladin, 1972, ©1968 In the view of these philosophers what appears beautiful to man is that which he accepts as the complete realisation of a given idea. ‘The usual assumption of a direct and decisive connection between life and art is by no means correct’, he told the Fabian Society in 1917, ‘if we consider this special spiritual activity of art we find it no doubt open at times to influences from life, but in the main self-contained – we find the rhythmic sequences of change determined more by its own internal forces – and by the readjustment within it of its own elements – than by external forces. The name Mikhail Lifshits (1905–83) will probably mean little to most English-speaking readers. To achieve this he should study the actual soldiers of the 8th Army at their daily work; he should observe just how the various qualities which have made that Army what it is are reflected in the behaviour and bearing of particular individuals, how they modify and are in turn modified by the idiosyncrasies of those individuals; and the more faithfully he succeeds in recreating particular, living characters with all their idiosyncrasies – say the London busman who is now driving a tank or the Australian gunner – the more real and therefore also the more typical and universally significant his image will be felt to be. In adopting this method of analysis Fry necessarily assumes that a given factor will have aesthetic significance in proportion as it is generalized, lacking in individuality, and constant. The first systematic account of Fry’s attitude to these questions is the important ‘Essay in Aesthetics’ of 1909. The idea is sounder and more interesting than Klingender's Freudian orthodoxy allows him to admit. André Breton: from the First Manifesto of Surrealism 1924. Francis Donald Klingender (1907 – 9 July 1955) was a Marxist art historian and exponent of Kunstsoziologie whose uncompromising views meant that he never quite fitted into the British art … In 1920 he added: ‘true art is becoming more and more esoteric and hidden, like an heretical sect – or rather like science in the middle ages’. Louis Aragon: from Paris Peasant 1924. London, Routledge and K. Paul, 1971 This does not mean that a work of art can always be justly valued in terms of the moral standards ruling at the time – on the contrary, one need only think of Goya’s Caprichos or of a book like The Grapes of Wrath to realize how often art has been an indictment of those standards. See F. D. Klingender, ‘Content and Form in Art’ in Herbert Read, F. D. Klingender, Eric Gill, A. L. Lloyd, Alick West, 5 on Revolutionary Art ... 1992), pp. The same applies to the theories put forward by Fry’s successors: those who regard art as an emanation of the ‘sub-conscious’ exclude the whole vast realm of human consciousness; while the advocates of a biological ‘sense of form’ reduce art to the level of a pre-human, because pre-social, reflex. But, as Chernyshevski points out, ‘alcohol is not wine’. Translating this example into more familiar terms we may ask: which are more significant, aesthetically and from every other point of view, Shakespeare’s plays or Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare? It can indicate form as well as movement. Francis Klingender: 'Content and Form in Art' 1935. I know that I have no right to detach myself so completely from the fate of my kind, but I have never been able to believe in political values.’ [11] In the light of this confession it is not difficult to understand the curious phrase which Fry used in a letter to D. S. MacColl (1912) to define his own aim as a practising artist: ‘I’ve always been searching for a style to express my petite sensation in.’ [12] Estranged from life and indifferent to the fate of mankind, art, as here defined, has no other function but to cultivate the sensibility of the few elect. Animals in Art and Thought to the End a/the Middle Ages: the wily stratagems of the fox, part hero, part villain, appealed to all classes of society. For in art the particular becomes the general, the general reveals itself in the particular, and it is the unity of the particular and the general, expressed in the unity of content and form, which makes art an inexhaustible source of significant experience. ‘The most universal of all things cherished by men and the one cherished more than anything else in the world is life itself; most of all the life men would like to live but also every other kind of life, for it is in any case better to live than not to live and all live things by their very nature are afraid of death, of extinction – and they all love life. Fry admits that art is communication, i.e. But who would claim that science does not lead to responsive action or that it is ‘freed from the binding necessities of our actual existence’? The Materiality of Exhibition Photography in the Modernist Era: Form, Content, Consequence. 11. It would be false and unconvincing precisely because of its character as a lifeless abstraction. What did he teach concerning the nature of art and its relation to life? Taking as his stalking horse a Symbolist literary theory, Shklovsky outlines an opposing view of the nature of art. ‘Everything that interests man in life’ includes the ugly, as well as the beautiful, the forces that frustrate and crush life, as well as those that support it, death as well as life. ‘Science and art (poetry) are textbooks for those who are beginning to study life. Her spunky sculptures look like doodles formed in 2D, which relate back to her formal training in painting and drawing. to form divorced and abstracted from that which it forms, Fry excluded everything which art was ever intended to convey to mankind. It can also indicate value and a light source in drawing. Of all the critics who have helped to mould our present standards of appreciation none can equal the influence of Roger Fry, the founder of British post-impressionism. Suppose that a painter, sculptor, writer or film director sets out to create a striking and significant image of, say, the soldier of the 8th Army. But it is when he defines the specific manner in which art reproduces reality that Chernyshevski differs most radically from the assumptions on which Fry’s analysis, in common with all other idealist systems of aesthetics, are based. 21 24 25 Introduction First writing assignment – what is art? I admit, of course, that it is always conditioned more or less by economic changes, but these are rather conditions of its existence at all than directive influences. Adolf Hitler: Speech Inaugurating the 'Great Exhibition of German Art' 1937. The Renard stories became one of tbe most powerful vehicles for satire in the late Middle Ages. ‘In real life all happenings are true and correct, there are no oversights, none of that one-sided narrowness of vision which attaches to all human works. The idea is sounder and more interesting than Klingender's Freudian orthodoxy allows him to admit. The minds of such people are not very active and if a person of this type happens to be a poet or an artist, his work will have no significance beyond reproducing the particular aspects of life which he prefers. the reflex behaviour inherited from the pre-human stage of our evolution – ends. But an idea can never be fully realised in a particular thing and therefore art, which aims at ideal perfection, always contains an element of myth or illusion. And it was here, where he ceased to be pontifical and gave free vent to his emotions, that Tennyson became the true mirror of an important aspect of his age. Hence his attempt, after say 1912, to disentangle the ‘purely aesthetic’ elements from their accompanying ‘accessories’ was in fact an attempt to explain the indifference of certain artists to the problems of life and the growing isolation of art from all other spheres of existence. It is scarcely necessary to point out that this profound idea is utterly incompatible with the formalism of Roger Fry. 11. READ: Edouard Glissant “The Black Beach”; Diego Rivera "The Revolutionary Spirit"(421-424); Maya Lin "Untitled Statements" (524-5); Arthur Danto "The Abuse of Beauty" ; Clifford Geertz "Art … But had they not been drawn for us by men of genius, our own conclusions would be even more narrow and inadequate. Within the rock shelters and caves of the northern and central areas of the . Lest any Fabian should be crude enough to suspect that the lecturer was referring to ordinary human beings, when he spoke of ‘life’, he hastened to explain: ‘And here let me try to say what I mean by life as contrasted with art. But to deny that the general is more significant than the particular does not imply the reverse proposition that the particular as such is what matters in art. essentially social. Life, reality in general, is more rich and varied, fuller and more significant than any figment of the imagination. For Klingender, they exist in a form of duality, open and closed, individual and collective. Realism as Critique: Leon Trotsky: from Literature and. Wood This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s. It is by now a commonplace that individual and … Marxism and Modern Art: An approach to social realism by F. D. Klingender 1943. The haunting fear, the doubt that all was not as it appeared to be, the agony and the despair, which the Victorians tried to conceal under a mask of complacent decorum, break out with unsurpassed intensity in many of his poems. As Francis Klingender states in . In terms of art, line is considered to be a moving dot. The quality which is most striking in The Palace of Art is its ambiguity. 11. In 1902 the family moved to Goslar in In order to fortify his own retreat he was now anxious to minimise what connection he had hitherto still assumed to exist between art and life. Angelo Lo Conte. Genre/Form: History: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Klingender, F.D. Marxist art historian of British art; employed Kunstsoziologie in his writings. André Breton: from the First Manifesto of Surrealism 1924. The objects become entry points to knowledge and imagining, creating an in-between space to slip in and out of, with the objects acting as a sort of portal. Although by 1909 Fry had already abandoned the ‘idea of likeness to Nature, of correctness or incorrectness as a test’ – he had just discovered Cézanne – he was, as he himself says, ‘still obsessed by ideas about the content of a work of art’, for he still felt that the ‘aesthetic whole’ somehow reflected ‘the emotions of life’. Now this responsive action implies in actual life moral responsibility. the tame still-lives and the harmless holiday scenes of the post-impressionists (not, it is significant to note, what was really new in English art, the war paintings of 1914-18). Line can control an viewer's eye. The objects become entry points to knowledge and imagining, creating an in-between space to slip in and out of, with the objects acting as a sort of portal. Though brilliant and plausible, this argument will not bear examination. Consequently, when Fry restated his theory in 1920 (essay ‘Retrospect’ in Vision and Design), he discarded the emotions of life and confined aesthetic feeling to what Clive Bell had meanwhile called ‘significant form’. It’s horribly difficult to analyse out of all the complex feelings just this one peculiar feeling, but I think that in proportion as poetry becomes more intense the content is entirely remade by the form and has no separate value at all. His final views are expressed in a letter which he wrote in 1924 to the Poet Laureate Robert Bridges: ‘I very early became convinced that our emotions before works of art were of many kinds and that we failed as a rule to distinguish the nature of the mixture and I set to work by introspection to discover what the different elements of these compound emotions might be and to try to get at the most constant, unchanging, and therefore I suppose fundamental emotion. Action implies moral responsibility. … On the one hand the poet is tempted and passionately desires to escape into the ‘God-like isolation’ of pure art, on the other hand he realizes that isolation will lead him to despair and death. In other words, the interval of reflection which Fry claims as the distinguishing feature of artistic perception, is just as essential in any behaviour that can be subjected to a moral test. It can describe edges. The image that would result from such an attempt to distil only what is general from a multitude of living individuals, would be of the type which is only too familiar from hundreds of war memorials up and down the country. Only the aesthetes still assert that art is superior to life and to reality.’, Chernyshevski sums up by stating that it is the essential function of art ‘to reproduce everything that interests man in life’. [5] It is essential also in scientific perception. But life does not trouble to explain its phenomena to us nor to draw conclusions as men do in the works of science and art. In our own tradition this was true of Shelley and Constable, no less than of Fielding and Hogarth. From this there was but a small step to the position Fry maintained in his post-war essays and letters, where he defines art as a ‘spiritual exercise’, as remote from actual life as ‘the most useless mathematical theory’, but of ‘infinite importance’ to those who experience it. It is one of the main points of the Essay in Aesthetics that art has nothing whatever to do with morals. 36. Realism as Critique: Leon Trotsky: from Literature and Revolution 1922-23. Harrison and Wood, 437. Yet precisely in so far as he did accept this mission he all but destroyed his poetic inspiration. Realism as Critique. Both imply an ideal realm of ‘beauty’ or ‘pure form’ which is superior to the ordinary life of men. Indeed, moral behaviour not infrequently implies the suppression of inherited responses: to act morally, when faced by a bull, I must curb my impulse of self-preservation sufficiently to help my less agile companion. When Art and Technology Collide… 5 Great Books on Art and Technology selected by Choice reviewer William S. Rodner. Adolf Hitler: Speech Inaugurating the ‘Great Exhibition of German Art' 1937. 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