Marxist Art Criticism

John Berger's Ways of Seeing was published in...

• 1980

• 1968

• 1972

• 2000

Which of the following is NOT a quote from Ways of Seeing? (you do not have to have read the whole book to figure this out!)

• "in matters of art, the critic should rely on universal criteria of beauty "

• "the way people look at [art] is affected by (...) learnt assumptions"

• "assumptions concerning beauty (...) mystify rather than clarify"

"An obscuring of capitalist or social dynamics that is seen as an impediment to critical consciousness" refers to...?

• Critical evaluation

• Mystification

• Superstructure

• Antithesis

Which of the following statements is NOT accurate?

• Marxist art critics are interested in context

• Marxist art critics are not interested in form

• Marxist art critics are interested in ideology

• Marxist art critics are interested in how form communicates ideology

Which of the following does NOT relate to the superstructure in Marxist thought?

• Art

• Relations of production

• Religion

• Ideology