The crisis of ugliness : from Cubism to Pop-art / by Mikhail Lifshitz ; translated by David Riff.

By:

Lifshit︠s︡, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1905-1983 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Riff, David [translator,, writer of introduction.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Series: Historical materialism book series ; 158.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 153 pages, 37 unnumbered pages of plates)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789004366558
9004366555

Uniform titles:

Krizis bezobrazii︠a. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crisis of ugliness.DDC classification:

700/.4112 23

LOC classification:

N6490 .L4813 2018eb

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Review: 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.

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Translated from the Russian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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