Toward Future Remembrance: Transcendence of Art | The Eritrean Revolution | 💡Discussion Question: What makes art revolutionary to you? “...Ironically, then, in the totalitarian world, art and love are among the most radical oppositional forces since they produce an alternative reality completely at odds with an oppressive reality; this difference can help reveal the horror of the totalitarian life and the need to make a break with it…” [1] “…Truly revolutionary art transcends everyday life by virtue of its form, by its ability to produce another world which projects images of a better life and reveals the deficiencies and horrors of existing reality…Art can and will draw its inspirations, and its very form, from the then prevailing revolutionary movements for revolution is in the substance of art…” [2] “...Art thus becomes the magically mediating key to a series of cognitive oppositions of central moral significance, aesthetic experience, by implication, is a form of critical consciousness more profound than any narrowly political leftism, and the artist, an avatar of a new social order…” [3] 📚Caption Source: [1], [2] Marcuse, H. (2006). Art and Liberation: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 4 (D. Kellner, Ed.) (1st ed.). Routledge. [3] Adler, J. (1976). “Revolutionary” Art and the “Art” of Revolution: Aesthetic Work in a Millenarian Period. Theory and Society, 3(3), 417–435. Video Source: “Eritrean Artists in War and Peace” Video produced by Betty LaDuke. Digitized from a VHS original held in the Valley Library Art Collection Records (RG 297), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries. Posted for educational purposes only. | Directory available through link in bio. Eritrean artists interviewed in order of slides: Danny Dafla, Haile Michael Ogbu, and Mikael Adonai #eritrea #africa #archives #research #anthropology #africanhistory #history #vintage #traditions #culture #customs #heritage #eastafrica #hornofafrica #eritreanbeauty #photography #africanart #africanbeauty