...reality which veils its own essence and suppresses its truth in favour of a merely classificatory order. Art and reality can only converge if art crystallizes...not by passively accepting objects as they come. In art knowledge is aesthetically mediated through and through. Even alleged cases of solipsism, which...

...of commodity reification, because art "aims at a dialectical reconciliation of subject and object. In the form of an image the object is absorbed into...contradiction between the object reconciled in the subject . . . and the actual unreconciled object in the outside world, confers on the work of art a vantage-point...

..."Reconciliation Under Duress," in Aesthetics and Politics (London. 1977); see especially pp. 159-160: "Art and reality can only converge if art crystallizes...not by passively accepting objects as they come. In art knowledge is aesthetically mediated through and through. ... In the form of an image the object...

...Lukacsian aesthetics is that it assumes a homology between art and reality that — according to Adorno — "can only converge if art crystallizes out its own...not by passively accepting objects as they come." 18 Adorno maintains a dialectical interplay between the subject and the object, while Lukacs erects...

...and oneself as interpenetrating realities. It is this point that Adorno latches on to in showing how Art and reality can only converge if art crystallizes...laws, not by passively accepting objects as they come' (1977: 160). Where Lukacs saw the modern attitude, at least the modernist reaction against realism,...