Open AccessDe l’esthétisme socialiste
Author(s) -
Mircea Martin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
caietele echinox
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1582-960X
DOI - 10.24193/cechinox.2020.39.01
Subject(s) - ideology , aestheticism , aesthetics , fantasy , escapism , realism , fundamentalism , socialism , politics , value (mathematics) , communism , philosophy , political science , sociology , law , art , literature , epistemology , machine learning , computer science
"In the late 1960s, after the break from Moscow and the relative “liberalization”of culture, the aesthetic criterion was officially accepted as a benchmark of literaryand artistic value. Despite some moments of ideological backlash, writers graduallyacquired some autonomy from the Partydirectives. Many of them practiced escapismand oneiric fantasy, out of a genuine beliefthat art should be divested of any moral orpolitical purpose or that it could alleviate thepressures and constraints of social life. Whatemerged, under communist totalitarianism,was a paradoxical fundamentalism that I havecalled socialist aestheticism, a sort of ad hocresponse to socialist realism."