MARX & ENGELS O N LITERATURE & ART a selection of writings edited by Lee Baxandall & Stefan Morawski introduction by Stefan Morawski Telos Press, St. Louis/Milwaukee The editors wish to acknowledge a generous grant from the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation which helped make this volume possible. An earlier version of the introductory essay appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Translations, Introduction and selections copyright © 1973 by Lee Baxandall and Stefan Morawski. All rights reserved. This book is a publication of Telos Press, St. Louis, Missouri. ISBN: 0-914386-02-6 (paper edition) 0-914386-01-8 (hard cover edition) Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-93501 Manufactured in the United States of America. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editors' Preface 1 Introduction 3 Origins and Traits of the Aesthetic Sensibility 49 Capitalist Alienation and the Warping of Aesthetic Values 57 Communism and the Advent of Artistic Disalienation 67 Class Values in Literature 75 The Class Reception of Artistic Values 95 The Problem of Realism 103 ’Tendency'Literature 117 The Expression and Endurance of Fundamental Human Values 129 Form and Style 137 Supplement 145 Bibliography 155 Name Index 173 MARX & ENGELS O N LITERATURE & ART