The work of art is not the expression of the artist's consci... - Lucien Goldmann

"The work of art is not the expression of the artist's consciousness; it is the objectification of the collective consciousness of a social group."

Lucien Goldmann Art

Sociologist Critic Romanian-French 1913–1970

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