The crisis of ugliness : from Cubism to Pop-art /
Lifshit︠s︡, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1905-1983,
The crisis of ugliness : from Cubism to Pop-art / by Mikhail Lifshitz ; translated by David Riff. - 1 online resource (ix, 153 pages, 37 unnumbered pages of plates) - Historical materialism book series, volume 158 1570-1522 ; . - Historical materialism book series ; 158. .
Translated from the Russian.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9789004366558 (e-book) 9004366555 (e-book) (hardback ; alk. paper) (hardback ; alk. paper)
2018017193
Lifšic, Michail Aleksandrovič 1905-1983
Pop Art
1900-1999
Modernism (Art)
Art criticism--20th century.
Modernisme (Art)
Critique d'art--20e siècle.
ART--Performance.
ART--Reference.
Art criticism.
Modernism (Art)
Ästhetik
Kubismus
Das Hässliche
Kunst
Modernisme (art)
Laideur--Dans l'art.
Critique d'art--20e siècle.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
N6490 / .L4813 2018eb
700/.4112
The crisis of ugliness : from Cubism to Pop-art / by Mikhail Lifshitz ; translated by David Riff. - 1 online resource (ix, 153 pages, 37 unnumbered pages of plates) - Historical materialism book series, volume 158 1570-1522 ; . - Historical materialism book series ; 158. .
Translated from the Russian.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9789004366558 (e-book) 9004366555 (e-book) (hardback ; alk. paper) (hardback ; alk. paper)
2018017193
Lifšic, Michail Aleksandrovič 1905-1983
Pop Art
1900-1999
Modernism (Art)
Art criticism--20th century.
Modernisme (Art)
Critique d'art--20e siècle.
ART--Performance.
ART--Reference.
Art criticism.
Modernism (Art)
Ästhetik
Kubismus
Das Hässliche
Kunst
Modernisme (art)
Laideur--Dans l'art.
Critique d'art--20e siècle.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
N6490 / .L4813 2018eb
700/.4112