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The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art

The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art

Lifshitz, Mikhail
Riff, David

Hardcover

Series: Historical Materialism Book, Book 158

PhilosophyArt Criticism & TheoryArt History

ISBN10: 9004366547
ISBN13: 9789004366541
Publisher: Brill
Published: Feb 22 2018
Pages: 194
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Mikhail Lifshitz is a major forgotten figure in the tradition of Marxist philosophy and art history. A significant influence on Lukács, and the dedicatee of his The Young Hegel, as well as an unsurpassed scholar of Marx and Engels's writings on art and a lifelong controversialist, Lifshitz's work dealt with topics as various as the philosophy of Marx and the pop aesthetics of Andy Warhol. The Crisis of Ugliness (originally published in Russian by Iskusstvo, 1968), published here in English for the first time, and with a detailed introduction by its translator David Riff, is a compact broadside against modernism in the visual arts that nevertheless resists the dogmatic complacencies of Stalinist aesthetics. Its reentry into English debates on the history of Soviet aesthetics promises to re-orient our sense of the basic coordinates of a Marxist art theory.

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