Art: Historian Linda Nochlin's Misère explores how 19th-century art visualizes misery built into the very structure of society, and it's more relevant now than it was just a few short years ago at its 2018 publication.
Review: John Molyneux's The Dialectics of Art offers a Marxist perspective, positing that art is "is a kind of spiritual health food which contributes to the development of the human personality, especially among working-class people" when they can freely access it.