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Author Lifshit︠s︡, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1905-1983, author.

Title The crisis of ugliness : from Cubism to Pop-art / by Mikhail Lifshitz ; translated by David Riff
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 153 pages, 37 unnumbered pages of plates)
Series Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 158
Historical materialism book series ; 158.
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
Pop Art gnd
Subject Modernism (Art)
Art criticism -- 20th century
1900 - 1999.
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
Art criticism
Modernism (Art)
Ästhetik
Kubismus
Das Hässliche
Kunst
Modernisme (art)
Laideur -- Dans l'art.
Critique d'art -- 20e siècle.
Form Electronic book
Author Riff, David, translator, writer of introduction
LC no. 2018017193
ISBN 9789004366558
9004366555
Other Titles Krizis bezobrazii︠a. English