The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art (Hardcover)

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, 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.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Historical Materialism Book Series, 158
Release date:	February 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Mikhail Lifshitz
Translators:	David Riff
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	194
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-36654-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Promotions
LSN:	90-04-36654-7
Barcode:	9789004366541

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