{"product_id":"the-crisis-of-ugliness-from-cubism-to-pop-art-9781642590104","title":"The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMikhail Lifshitz is a major forgotten figure in the tradition of Marxist philosophy and art history. A significant influence on Lukács, and the dedicatee of his \u003cem\u003eThe Young Hegel\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Crisis of Ugliness\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Mikhail Lifshitz: A Communist Contemporary \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cem\u003eDavid Riff\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Foreword \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 Myth and Reality: The Legend of Cubism \u003cbr\u003e   ‘Scandal in Art’ \u003cbr\u003e   Two Appraisals of Cubism \u003cbr\u003e   G.V. Plekhanov and Cubism \u003cbr\u003e   The Terms ‘Reactionary’ and ‘Bourgeois’ \u003cbr\u003e   The Revolt against Things \u003cbr\u003e   Fusion with Objects as an Ideal \u003cbr\u003e   The Evolution of Cubism \u003cbr\u003e   Painting in the Other World \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2 The Phenomenology of the Soup Can: The Quirks of Taste \u003cbr\u003e   The Economy of Painting \u003cbr\u003e   Reflection’s Malaise \u003cbr\u003e   Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3 Why am I Not a Modernist? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e References \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e Illustration Section\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359871467863,"sku":"9781642590104","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781642590104.jpg?v=1754125966","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-crisis-of-ugliness-from-cubism-to-pop-art-9781642590104","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}