| 5 | PREFACE |
| Introduction | |
| 7 | THE SUBJECT OF MARXIST-LENINIST AESTHETICS |
| Chapter I | |
| ART AS A FORM OF SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS | |
| 22 | 1. Concerning the Nature of Art |
| 32 | 2. Art and Reality |
| 46 | 3. Art and Cognition |
| 56 | 4. Art and Ideology |
| Chapter II | |
| THE IMAGE IN ART | |
| 74 | 1. The Image: A Cardinal Category in Aesthetics |
| 80 | 2. The Typical and the Individual |
| 94 | 3. The Objective and the Subjective |
| 102 | 4. The Emotional and the Rational |
| 107 | 5. Artistic Truth |
| 116 | 6. Image and Sign |
| Chapter III | |
| CONTENT AND FORM IN ART | |
| 123 | [introduction.] |
| 125 | 1. Content in Art |
| 138 | 2. Form in Art |
| 148 | 3. The Dialectics of Content and Form in Art |
| 159 | 4. Artistic Culture—Sum Total of Art Forms |
| Chapter IV | |
| AESTHETIC CATEGORIES AND MAN’S ARTISTIC APPREHENSION OF THE WORLD | |
| 173 | 1. The Nature of Aesthetic Categories |
| 2. The Beautiful | |
| 177 | [introduction.] |
| 178 | A. The Essence of the Beautiful |
| 192 | B. The Beautiful in Art |
| 3. The Tragic and the Comic | |
| 198 | [introduction.] |
| 202 | A. The Tragic |
| 219 | B. The Comic |
| Chapter V | |
| CREATIVE METHOD IN SOCIALIST ART | |
| 239 | [introduction.] |
| 241 | 1. Creative Method. Realism |
| 262 | 2. Socialist Realism |
| 283 | 3. Commitment to the Party and the People in Art |
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