Modernism was a reaction to mass culture and totalitarianism government support. Are artists better off being shielded from markets and commercial pressures? There are pluses and minuses to commercial systems.

7. Totalitarianism and the Arts in the 20th Century

A ten-lecture course presented by Paul Cantor, Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and a pioneer in literary criticism from an Austrian perspective. Having studied with Mises, he is working to counter the Marxist understanding of culture that dominates the humanities today.
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