The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art

Name: The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art
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By Mikhail Lifshitz

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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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Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 194
Release Date:: 2018-02-22
Publication Date:: 2018-02-22
Publisher:: Brill
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 9004366547
ISBN13:: 9789004366541
Weight:: 544 g
Height:: 160 cm
Width:: 239 cm
Thickness:: 15 cm

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