Aesthetic, compiled from the French edition of Soviet philosopher and aesthetician Avner Ziss's 1977 book Elements d'eshetique Marxiste, one of his important texts, offers a comprehensive perspective on various artistic issues.

Ziss's text, which focuses on aesthetic and art theories and conducts detailed studies on these subjects, provides extensive information about aesthetics, Marxist aesthetics, and the social approach with examples from different art forms. By selecting and comparatively reading works produced in literature, music, sculpture, and painting, Ziss offers an original interpretation of how aesthetic theory developed from classical art to contemporary art.

Ziss also examines different art movements, delving deeply into the subject with various topics ranging from the subject of aesthetics in scientific doctrine to content and form in art. Drawing on aesthetic categories, the author also touches upon the artistic assimilation of reality and emphasizes three words: "beautiful," "tragic," and "comic."

Ziss provides clues for those who want to interpret modern and contemporary art within the context of social consciousness, and he clearly expresses his thoughts on evaluating art in terms of reality, method of knowledge, and/or ideology.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)