அழகும் உண்மையும்: மார்க்ஸியப் பார்வை

by Sidney Walter Finkelstein, V. Geetha (Translator), S.V. Rajadurai (Translator)

கீட்ஸ் மற்றும் மார்க்ஸ் ஆகியோரின் கருத்துக்களின் அடிப்படையில் கலையின் தோற்றம், வளர்ச்சி, அதன் சமூகப் பயன்பாடு போன்றவற்றை ஆராய்கிறது இந்நூல்.

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Sidney Finkelstein, born in Brooklyn, New York on July 4, 1909, received his Bachelor’s degree from City College in New York in 1929 and his A.M. from Columbia University in 1932 before he became a renowned critic of music, literature, and the arts. In 1955, he earned a second master’s degree from New York University. During the 1930s he served as a book reviewer for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and worked for the United Postal Service. In the 1940s he joined the music staff of the Herald Tribune and also served as a music reviewer for several other publications including New Masses, Masses, and Mainstream. Finkelstein became active in the Communist Party U.S.A. (CPUSA) where he served as the party’s leading musical and cultural theoretician. Finkelstein applied his interpretation of Socialist Realism in several books on arts and culture, the most famous being Jazz, a People’s Music (1948). Between 1951 and 1973 he served on the staff of Vanguard Records, a New York based record label that specialized in jazz and classical recordings. In 1957 he was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee for his Communist party affiliation. Finkelstein died in Brooklyn, New York on January 14, 1974.