Art & Socialism: Lectures & Essays
The Aesthetic Component of Socialism
By David Walsh, January 3, 1998
Art expresses things about life, about people and about oneself that are not revealed in political or scientific thought. To become whole, human beings require the truth about the world, and themselve...
An exchange with a reader
Oscar Wilde and “art for art’s sake”
A Critical Comment on the article “Oscar Wilde’s lasting significance”
November 8, 1997
On July 28, 1997 we published an article by David Walsh on Oscar Wilde and his contribution to twentieth century cultural and political life (see article, Oscar Wilde’s lasting significance). We pub...
Art and freedom
André Breton and problems of twentieth-century culture
Part 1
By Frank Brenner and David Walsh, June 16, 1997
In June and July 1938 Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian revolutionary, and André Breton, French Surrealist poet and thinker, collaborated in Mexico on the writing of an extraordinary
Art and freedom
André Breton and problems of twentieth-century culture
Part 2
By Frank Brenner and David Walsh, June 16, 1997
Breton was among the first intellectuals in France to appreciate and draw attention to the significance of Freud's work.
The objective character of artistic cognition
By David Walsh, September 13, 1993
Edward Said, a Palestinian and a professor of literature at Columbia University in New York City, has set himself the task in Culture and Imperialism of offering
