Foreword
Preface
Part One: Fundamentals
1. Totality of Life and the Totality of Art
2. Spontaneity and Convention
3. Sociology and Psychology
4. Art and Historicity
Part Two: The Interaction between Art and Society
Introduction: Interaction and Dialectic
5. Art as a Product of Society
6. Society as the Product of Art
Part Three: Dialectic: Light and Will-o'-the-Wisp
7. The Concept of Dialectic
8. The Principle of Contradiction
9. The Dialectic of History and Nature
10. The Dialectic of the Aesthetic
11. Limits of Dialectic
Part Four: En Route from Author to Public
12. Address and Discussion
13. On the Experience of Art
14. The Consumers of Art
15. The Mediators
16. Art Criticism
17. Institutions of Mediation
18. The Art Trade
19. Understanding and Misunderstanding
20. Success and Failure
21. Social and Antisocial Motives
Part Five: The Differentiation of Art According to Cultural Strata
22. Class and Culture
23. The Art of the Cultural Elite
24. Folk Art
25. Popular Art
26. Mass Art
27. An Interpretation of Mass Culture
28. The Mass Media
29. Pop Art
Part Six: The End of Art?
30. Concepts of the Demise of Art
31. Presuppositions of Present-Day Art
32. Symptoms of Crisis in Present-Day Art