The "Brecht effect": politics and American postwar art.(Bertolt Brecht, Fredric Jameson)(Essay)

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In the mid-to late-1960s, the New Left grew increasingly critical of the passive consumerism and individualist complacency that defined the liberalist climate of postwar America. Activists and intellectuals aimed to bring about a culture of participation and direct action. As the artists of the New Left sought to politicize art and make politics a public and cultural matter, Bertolt Brecht's theory of art as social practice and an articulation of political awareness regained currency. Brecht's dialectics of modernist aesthetics and revolutionary politics served as a model for ...

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