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Sophia McDowell, Art and Social Change Reader, Week 6


Socialism from the Root Up

5 key takeaways
- Art is inseperable from daily life and a part of the social order (Gustave Courbet during the Paris Commune)
- The progress of socialism was shown through German socialists and their protests.
- The Radicals were forced to form an alliance with the socialists.
-The socialist movement was mixed with the nationalist and political agitation in Russia.
- The slaying of Czar was the most tragic event in the Russian movement.

The Socialist Ideal: Art

5 key takeaways:
- William Morris describes that he uses the word "art" for a different meaning, for convenience sake and excluding appeals to the intellect or to the eye.
- Objects such as a knife, a cup, and a house are made by man and must be characterized as a work of art to the socialist.
- However, the commercialist will divide these items into things for sale.
- "The artificial famine of inequality impoverishes us despite our riches"
- The position of art is helpless and crippled amidst utilitarian brutality.

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