Beauty and Revolution: Gustav Metzger’s Dialectical Aesthetics

This article explores the political artist Gustav Metzger’s engagement with aesthetics and dialectical form. It locates aesthetics at the centre of his ethical endeavour, as the locus of what he saw as art’s revolutionary potential, and dialectics as its structure or operating principle. It posits a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elizabeth Fisher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Yale University 2022-08-01
Series:British Art Studies
Online Access:https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-23/gustav-metzgers-dialectical-aesthetics