Rolf Harris - Can you tell who it is yet

With even greater intransigence, A. falls upon the so-called. "Mass" art, serving, in his opinion, the spiritual enslavement of man. A. believesthat true art should be in constant conflict with the mass of consumers, and with the state apparatus. authorities that regulate and guide official culture. However, art that opposes the regulatory trend, in A. 's understanding, turns out to be narrowly elitist, tragically isolated, killing within itself the vital sources of creativity. In this antithesis, the aesthetic sociological is closed and hopeless. A. 's concepts. His philosophy of culture has successive connections with the philosophy of F. Nietzsche, O. Spengler, X. Ortega y Gasset. Some of its provisions were formed as a reaction to the demagogic "cultural policy" of the National Socialists. The schematism and paradoxical nature of A. 's concept was clearly reflected in his book Philosophy of New Music (1949), which was based on a comparison of the works of A. Schoenberg and I. Stravinsky. Schoenberg Expressionism,According to A. , leads to the collapse of the muses. forms, to the refusal of the composer to create a “complete opus”. A holistic closed artist. production, according to A. , by its orderliness distorts reality. From this point of view, A. criticizes Stravinsky's neoclassicism, which supposedly reflects the illusion of reconciliation of individuality and society, turning art into a false ideology.