In the history of human literary theory, literary theorists and thinkers of past dynasties have investigated the essence and characteristics of art from different angles and put forward different theoretical propositions and ideas.
Marx and Engels investigated art from the perspective of production theory and thought that art is a special spiritual production of human beings. Marxist theory of artistic production highlights the free and conscious productive nature of artistic creation, which is of great historical significance and contemporary value, and is a historic change in the history of human literary theory. ?
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In Marxist literary theorists, the standards of aesthetics and history are often proved to be separate, and they cannot be satisfactory. Lenin's reflection theory and Marcuse's aesthetic theory are typical representatives of this unbalanced theoretical system.
the unbalanced performance of aesthetic and historical standards in practice is presented to artists in a distorted form of division and unity, which seems to have become an irresistible fate for some artists.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Historical View of Aesthetics