Beschreibung:

VI, 390 S. Originalleinen.

Bemerkung:

Einband leicht berieben. Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Marginalien von alter Hand auf den hineteren Vorsätten. - In each chapter, Sinclair critiques an artist according to his or her support for the rich and powerful. Most artists do not challenge the status quo and take positions such as 'art for art's sake' or 'art is entertainment.' No matter how beautiful their work, by their passivity such artists perpetuate oppression and inequality. Mammonart is notable for Sinclair's repeated statement that all art, including his own, is propaganda. The popular distinction between propagandists like Jesus and Tolstoi, and Shakespeare and Goethe, who are "pure and unsullied creative artists...is purely a class distinction and a class weapon..."