Author

Watson, Kathleen

Title

Art and the individual

In

Communist Review

Imprint

March, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1944, p. 223

Abstract

This article rejects the 'idealist conception of the artist as genius', instead proposing 'training' in technique for the production of art from the 'unity of knowledge and experience'. It is argued that such unity 'leads the artist to the philosophy of dialectical materialism'.

Related entries

Cultural Forms

• Criticism

Institutions

• Communist Review

Subjects

• Communism
• Realism

See also

• Communist Party of Australia (1920 - 1991)
• Communist Party of Australia - 1940s

Related Published resources

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• Diamond, D, 'Art and the struggle', Communist Review, November, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1943, pp. 151-3. Image PDF Details