Gottfried Benn: Artists and Old Age
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On Capitalist Realism
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Andrei Sinavsky (1925-1997)
Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinavsky) begins his brilliant 1959 essay "On Socialist Realism" (https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1410896620On_Socialist_Realism_Winter_1960.pdf ) with the following questions:
"What is [Soviet] socialist realism? What is the meaning of this strange and jarring phrase? Can there be a socialist, capitalist, Christian, or Mohammedan realism? ..."
Of course there can.
Therefore, the below five-part primer has been designed as a modest aid for better understanding a sometimes mysterious and complex thought-system — the most globally dominant, widely accepted and practiced form of realism to date.
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