Description |
1 online resource (ix, 153 pages, 37 unnumbered pages of plates) |
Series |
Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 158 |
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Historical materialism book series ; 158.
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Contents |
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgement -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Text and Illustrations -- Mikhail Lifshitz: A Communist Contemporary / David Riff -- Foreword -- Myth and Reality: The Legend of Cubism -- The Phenomenology of the Soup Can: The Quirks of Taste -- Why am I Not a Modernist? -- Illustration Section -- Back Matter -- References -- Index |
Summary |
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 Lukacs's The Young Hegel, as well as 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 (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 about the history of Soviet aesthetics promises to re-orient our sense of the basic coordinates of a Marxist art theory |
Notes |
Translated from the Russian |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
In English and Russian |
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SUBJECT |
Lifšic, Michail Aleksandrovič 1905-1983 gnd |
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Pop Art gnd |
Subject |
Modernism (Art)
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Art criticism -- 20th century
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1900 - 1999.
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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Art criticism
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Modernism (Art)
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Ästhetik
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Kubismus
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Das Hässliche
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Kunst
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Modernisme (art)
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Laideur -- Dans l'art.
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Critique d'art -- 20e siècle.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Riff, David, translator, writer of introduction
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LC no. |
2018017193 |
ISBN |
9789004366558 |
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9004366555 |
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