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The crisis of ugliness : from Cubism to Pop-art
- Title
- The crisis of ugliness : from Cubism to Pop-art / by Mikhail Lifshitz ; translated by David Riff.
- Author
- Lifshit︠s︡, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1905-1983
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Riff, David
- Description
- ix, 153 pages, 37 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 158
- Uniform Title
- Krizis bezobrazii︠a︡. English
- Historical materialism book series ; 158.
- Alternative Title
- Krizis bezobrazii︠a︡.
- Subjects
- Note
- Translated from the Russian.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-150) and index.
- Call Number
- JQE 18-685
- ISBN
- 9789004366541
- 9004366547
- LCCN
- 2018001120
- OCLC
- 1031053806
- Author
- Lifshit︠s︡, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1905-1983, author.
- Title
- The crisis of ugliness : from Cubism to Pop-art / by Mikhail Lifshitz ; translated by David Riff.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 158Historical materialism book series ; 158.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-150) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Riff, David, translator, writer of introduction.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Lifshit͡s, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1905-1983. Crisis of ugliness. Leiden ; Boston : Leiden, [2018] 9789004366558 (DLC) 2018017193
- Research Call Number
- JQE 18-685