As a result, Marx’s writings continue to be dominant in artistic discourses, as well as the subject of many artworks. Since then, Marx’s analysis of the creation of value in capitalist society has been particularly relevant to how we think about art and artistic production today. Marxist theory has had a tremendous influence on the interpretations of art and art history, particularly in the 1960s, when a generation of art historians developed critical theories based on Marxist aesthetics and left-communist ideology. A century and a half later, the dense tome has become familiar to many-although few have read it. The first volume of the opus-where Marx expounds on three decades of research into the capitalist production of industrial England-was published on September 14, 1867. There are tens of thousands of pages in the four hefty volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy , more commonly referred to as Das Kapital.
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