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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