The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art: 158 (Historical Materialism Book, 158) - Hardcover

Lifshitz, Mikhail

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004366547 ISBN 13: 9789004366541

Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2018

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Reseña del editor:

Mikhail Lifshitz is a major forgotten figure in the tradition of Marxist philosophy and art history. The Crisis of Ugliness (1968), published here in English for the first time, is a compact broadside against modernism in the visual arts that resists the dogmatic complacencies of Stalinist aesthetics.

Biografía del autor:

Mikhail Lifshitz (1905–1983) studied and later taught at the avant-garde art school VKhUTEMAS, where he formulated a Leninist critique of modernism beginning in the mid-1920s. In 1927, he became the first author to write about Marx’s own aesthetic views. His book on the subject (published in Moscow by Gosizdat Khud. Lit. in 1933) first appeared in English as The Philosophy of Art of Karl Marx in 1938 (New York: Critic’s Group) and is still considered a pioneering work in its field.

David Riff (1975) is a writer, artist and curator. He was a member of the work group Chto delat and co-editor of the newspaper of the same name from 2003 to 2008. Riff has curated international exhibitions and event programs and has published extensively on contemporary art. He currently lives in Berlin and works as a freelance curator.

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• Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 9004366547
• ISBN 13: 9789004366541
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194