The Expressionism Debate Between Lukacs And Bloch

During the late thirties of the nineteenth century (1937-1938), the German Marxist theorists began a debate on Expressionism. The direct reason of this debate is the famous expressionist writer Bain joined the Fascist camp and made people to re-concerned the real meaning of Expressionism. What’s more,it lead to people thinking about what is real art and what is the relationship between art and politics.While this debate occurred in the 30s of last century, nowadays people are discussing the content and the significance of this debate still think the meaning of it. Expressionism debate was a discussion among important Western Marxist aesthetics and under the surface,there are a lot of things and meanings hidden behind it. This debate has social and historical reasons. This debate focused on whether expressionism will lead to Fascism or not.lt also centered on how to evaluate expressionism which was represented by the emerging modern art or "pioneer" art. This paper selects the two directly aesthetics who were involved in this debate and who are the typical representative of those aesthetics-Lukacs and Bloch.From their direct involvement in this Debate and their discussion paper involved, their artistic expression of the prevailing literary form are also be concerned.After analysising the two theoretical debate in Philosophy way, we can sort out and explore the contents of this argument, which demonstrate why art forms and cultural heritage of western Marxism aesthetics must have a profound impact on future generations as well. Western Marxism argues that art is an important part to defend in the spirit way.It is also can become the powerful weapon in people’s mind.Therefore, the art form has not just as art itself has shown and it is not so simple as we thought.It has been given a broader meaning for people to rethink.Behind the debate implies profound historical reasons and complex social realities. When the Western countries with the development of industrial civilization and gradually into the heyday of capitalism, as part of the development of basic social contradiction is resolved, people’s living standards are improving, society is difficult to recurrence of similar French Revolution spirited kind of revolutionary consciousness era, in addition, with the continuous expansion of fascism and the expansion also resulted in the suppression of the revolution and was hit. Thus a result of these historical background and social reality, as the representative of Western Marxist, a portion of the positive progress of the bourgeois liberal intellectuals seek to find revolutionary ideology and then turn the field in an attempt to criticize the traditional requirements of freedom of thought of social reality profound counterattack. Artists began to think about the meaning of realism, thinking of the 19th century literary left to future glory, ponder whether this legacy of heritage in the moment still applies.Emerging modernist novel forms of artistic expression, rebel traditional expressions of personal feelings for the purpose of real-life experience, most of them showed digestion traditional cultural significance given things, emphasis on individual experience, formal disorder messy, rebellious tradition of reality Therefore,, doctrine in the arts, on the value of realism and modern art and Ru treat emerging art attitude become the object of debate, a time different opinions, various commentators have written and published their own point of view to participate in the discussion. Hungary famous literary theorist, thinkers, aestheticians Lukacs as the defenders of realism behind tradition, to expressionism as the representative of modern art are not good against the new modern art. Lukacs had written the article expressed his views on expressionism before his debate. This time he was involved in controversy in relatively late, but his article puts the focus of this debate from a discussion of the evaluation of expressionism to a renewed emphasis on realism. Lukacs’s philosophy is the ideological basis, "integrity", realism of expression is not only capable of reacting overall appearance of the community, grasping of the characters is also more comprehensive.But he revealed a direct relationship between people and social background. He is opposed to argue that expressionism expressionist violated this integrity only paid attention to the appearance of subjective response, but they ignored the phenomenon of social objectivity.Its content not only has no revolutionary, but also with the people from the community.lt does not disclose performance behind profound nature as well.Whether embraced in realism, which means to inherit the great, glorious and wealth of realism accumulated since the nineteenth century, or to open and appreciative attitude towards the new modern art.This debate makes people renewed their emphasis on realism and modern art.And also led people to rethink "heritage"of literature and art, which is the real estate. So how to treat literary heritage? Then,the relationship between literature and politics has been rethought and even though the process only lasted two years,this debate is triggered by the literary problem.This paper combined Bloch and Lukacs’s debate of the main content and the significance of this debate. Previous article for the revelation of this debate concerns the lack of inspiration.For this article,we come from this debate and intend to begin with the overall social background in 20th thirties, to explore expressionism and other modern art appears in the background, and incorporates the perspective of the painting performance of the intrinsic value of Literature.The relationship between arts and politics has always been argued a lot, and has been no conclusive answer until now.An exclusive focus on the political effects as well as practical significance literature and ignore the value of literary or art itself, with the common vision of social reality is not the most appropriate evaluation of literature. Lukacs’s remarks, although were too sweeping, but they made people to rediscover the social value of realism.And the defense of the new forms of artistic expressionism. Bloch’s view of the literature also makes it innovative and pioneering a new understanding for people to recognize the importance of treating with an open vision of emerging art form. Whether it is realistic to emphasize the importance of modern art or support, we can see the manifestations of art of great importance, which is particularly important in the aesthetic sense of Western Marxism.Western Marxist raise important practical significance of culture-revolutionary.In this way, the spiritual realism of reality is revolt,.Although they performanced in different ways,the revolutionary and social values behind them has implied indeed the same, which is particularly important in view of the 1930s.