{"product_id":"the-crisis-of-ugliness-from-cubism-to-pop-art-9789004366541","title":"The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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 The Young Hegel, 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. The Crisis of Ugliness (originally published in Russian by Iskusstvo, 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 on the history of Soviet aesthetics promises to re-orient our sense of the basic coordinates of a Marxist art theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations    Introduction. Mikhail Lifshitz: A Communist Contemporary   David Riff    Foreword    1 Myth and Reality: The Legend of Cubism   ‘Scandal in Art’   Two Appraisals of Cubism   G.V. Plekhanov and Cubism   The Terms ‘Reactionary’ and ‘Bourgeois’   The Revolt against Things   Fusion with Objects as an Ideal   The Evolution of Cubism   Painting in the Other World    2 The Phenomenology of the Soup Can: The Quirks of Taste   The Economy of Painting   Reflection’s Malaise   Conclusion    3 Why am I Not a Modernist?    References  Index  Illustration Section","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210750648663,"sku":"9789004366541","price":125.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-crisis-of-ugliness-from-cubism-to-pop-art-9789004366541","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}