The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach (Peregrine)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140551518 (0140551514)
Publish date: December 14th 1978
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
"Why is it distracting, relaxing, entertaining to sink oneself into someone else's life and problems, to identify oneself with a painting or a piece of music or with the characters in a novel, play or film? Why do we respond to such 'unreality' as though it were reality intensified?""[We] long to ab...