Hans Hess: Selected Writings Volume 3 - Art & Ideology

Purchase and listen to a pathbreaking exploration of art's relationship with power and ideology set out in Art and Ideology - the third volume of writings by emigre Marxist art critic Hans Hess.

Hess's penetrating analysis reveals how 'what now replaces the function of art is advertising ' in our contemporary world, where 'the goods have become the gods'.

It traces the transformation from art's earliest social purposes - like the cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux, created not as decorati...