ABSTRACT
Stefan Morawski was a professor of philosophy and aesthetics, writing extensively on modern and contemporary art. The ideological struggle in the USA is becoming more and more heated. The official culture has been confronted with an ever-stronger rival in the form of progressive currents in arts and sciences. Art critics and artists, picking and choosing from a number of various anti-scientific aesthetic-philosophical systems, are able to substantiate even the seemingly most absurd postulates. They are the pupils of both the “sensationists” and the Freudians and Jungians. Humanist art—truly independent, truly people’s art—may be created only by progressive artists. Elite art is also class-oriented, commercialized and one that, in another respect (that of form, and not the subject matter) kills the wholesome aesthetic perception and the meaningful, progressive purpose and tasks of an artwork.
