"Marcuse
writes that truly oppositional art must be shaped in such a manner that
it reveals the negative system in its totality and, at the same time,
the absolute necessity of liberation. The work of art must, at its
breaking point, expose the ultimate nakedness of humanity’s (and
nature’s) existence, stripped of all the paraphernalia of monopolistic
mass culture, completely and utterly alone, in the abyss of destruction,
despair and freedom. The most revolutionary work of art will be, at the
same time, the most esoteric, the most anti-collectivist one, for the
goal ... is the free individual."
-- Douglas Kellner
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