The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art
Author:   Mikhail Lifshitz ,  David Riff
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Edition:   158th New edition
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Pages:   194
Publication Date:   11 June 2019
Format:   Paperback
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The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art


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Mikhail Lifshitz is a major forgotten figure in the tradition of Marxist philosophy and art history. A significant influence on Lukacs, 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, presented with a detailed introduction by its translator David Riff, is a compact broadside against modernism in the visual arts that 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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Author:   Mikhail Lifshitz ,  David Riff
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Edition:   158th New edition
ISBN:  

9781642590104


ISBN 10:   164259010
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   11 June 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you.

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List of Illustrations Introduction. Mikhail Lifshitz: A Communist Contemporary   David Riff Foreword 1 Myth and Reality: The Legend of Cubism   ‘Scandal in Art’   Two Appraisals of Cubism   G.V. Plekhanov and Cubism   The Terms ‘Reactionary’ and ‘Bourgeois’   The Revolt against Things   Fusion with Objects as an Ideal   The Evolution of Cubism   Painting in the Other World 2 The Phenomenology of the Soup Can: The Quirks of Taste   The Economy of Painting   Reflection’s Malaise   Conclusion 3 Why am I Not a Modernist? References Index Illustration Section

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