Monday, April 8, 2019

Georg Lukacs on “Art and Objective Truth” Summary


Artistic Representation of Reality
The artistic representation of reality rests on the same contradiction as any other reflection of reality.
The goal for all great art is to provide picture of reality in which the contradiction between appearance and reality, the particular and general, the immediate and the conceptual is submerged.
A sense of inseparable integrity
The universal appears as the quality of the individual and particular
Reality becomes manifest
It can be experienced within appearance
The general principle is exposed from the individual case.
Every work of art must present a circumscribed, self-contained and complete context with its own immediately self-evident movement and structure.
Special context in literature
Only the conclusion provides the full clarification of beginning
Every work of art evolves within itself all the preconditions for its characters, situations, events, etc.
Reader is conducted to the outcome.
The basic materialism of all great artists is partly or completely idealistic.
Every significant work of art creates its own world; characters, situations, actions
Illusion in any case necessary because readers’ surrender himself to the general effect of the work of art.
Non- correspondence with reality but non-correspondence is merely an illusion.
Readers’ reflection of reality must be broadened and deepened.
The extensive totality of reality is beyond the possible scope of any artistic creation.
The totality of the work of art is rather intensive; the circumscribed.
The briefest song is as much as an intensive totality as the mightiest epic.
In representing individual men and situations, the artist awakens the illusion of life.
If a work of art depicted only the overflowing abundance of new concepts, only those aspects which provide new insights, only the subtlety beyond the common generalization about ordinary experience, then the reader would merely be confused instead of being involved.
Active social function- the propaganda effect of genuine work of art.
Partisanship of objectivity must be found intensified in the work of art
The subject matter of work of art is consciously arranged and ordered by the artist toward this goal. (Engels=tendentiousness)
The paradox in the effect of  a work of art is that we surrender ourselves to the work as  though it represented reality and immerse ourselves in it although  we are always aware that it is not reality but simply a special form of reflecting reality.
Non correspondence in this respect is the pre condition of the artistic illusion.
Aesthetic illusion is only possible when the work of reflects the total objective process of life with objective accuracy.
In the period of bourgeois ascendancy-
·    There was parasitic divorce of art from life
·    Denial of any objectivity in art
·    A glorification of the sovereignty of the creative individual theory of indifference to content arbitrariness in form.
·    There should be mechanical materialism= selection of details on the basis of a photographic correspondence with reality
·    Objective anarchy in the selection and arrangement of their material.


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