That’s a good article. I think I had seen it before but not read through it in full.
Like at face value it comes off as incredibly elitist to say that artists have a power to create universes out of thin air, and non-artists don’t. And I couldn’t even say that they’re saying “everyone can be an artist and create universes out of thin air” because they’re clearly drawing a line between artists and non-artists (in which they consider, at the very least, oligarchs to be).
Yeah, it’s interesting how the motives and narrative shift in response to the changing conditions. And I think it is aligned with communist goals and views to insist that art does not arise from “special talent only reserved for a select group” but from a mixture of predispositions and applied process like any other capability (an example of predispositions and their impact being how most people can learn to sing, but a limited number have perfect pitch… this doesn’t mean only those with perfect pitch are “real musicians”, it just means they will have an easier time becoming a skilled musician, all other things being equal, than those who don’t). It reminds me of the idea of bridging the developed gap between “intellectual” and “worker”. The gap between “artist” and “worker” appears to have a similar kind of line drawing going on that will need to be overcome. But artists who are stuck seeing themselves as transcendent beings tapping into something mystical will have a harder time relating to the factory worker whose labor is also being exploited in various ways.
Oooh, that’s neat, bookmarking to look at later. I remember hearing in passing about his interest in cinema on one of the Blowback Podcast episodes on Korea, but I didn’t know that much detail about it.
That’s a good article. I think I had seen it before but not read through it in full.
Yeah, it’s interesting how the motives and narrative shift in response to the changing conditions. And I think it is aligned with communist goals and views to insist that art does not arise from “special talent only reserved for a select group” but from a mixture of predispositions and applied process like any other capability (an example of predispositions and their impact being how most people can learn to sing, but a limited number have perfect pitch… this doesn’t mean only those with perfect pitch are “real musicians”, it just means they will have an easier time becoming a skilled musician, all other things being equal, than those who don’t). It reminds me of the idea of bridging the developed gap between “intellectual” and “worker”. The gap between “artist” and “worker” appears to have a similar kind of line drawing going on that will need to be overcome. But artists who are stuck seeing themselves as transcendent beings tapping into something mystical will have a harder time relating to the factory worker whose labor is also being exploited in various ways.
Honestly I can understand now why Juche includes the paintbrush lol. Kim Jong Il wrote a book on Cinema – and by book I mean a 500 pages monster. I uploaded it to ProleWiki actually: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/File:On-The-Art-Of-The-Cinema.pdf.
There’s bourgeois art and there’s proletarian art, much like there is bourgeois philosophy and proletarian philosophy.
Oooh, that’s neat, bookmarking to look at later. I remember hearing in passing about his interest in cinema on one of the Blowback Podcast episodes on Korea, but I didn’t know that much detail about it.