Ideology and art - "coexistence" and contempt

As part of the series of lectures "Open forum on Thursdays at noon", organized by the Department of General Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zenica, the guest lecturer was comparativist graduate Aras Borić, writer from Zenica and head of the University Library of the University of Zenica. In a lecture for cultural studies students, entitled "Behind the scenes of ideology - art, ideology and society", Borić spoke about "classic" and contemporary definitions of ideology, its relationship to art (Marx, Althusser, Macherey, Adorno), and what art is at all and what is its true meaning and purpose. Special emphasis is placed on the possible "coexistence" of ideology and art, on the possibility of its ideological use, and why the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century, above all fascism and communism, always had a hostile attitude towards modern and avant-garde art as an authentic expression of human freedom. In the lecture, Borić analyzed some characteristic works of art, and at the end, spoke about the relationship between ideology and fashion, ideology and music, and ideology and film.