The Crisis of Ugliness - From Cubism to Pop-Art (Paperback, 158th edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Haymarket Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Historical Materialism
Release date:	July 2019
Authors:	Mikhail Lifshitz
Editors:	David Riff
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	194
Edition:	158th edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-64259-010-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism
LSN:	1-64259-010-X
Barcode:	9781642590104

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