The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art write by Mikhail Lifshitz. This book was released on 2018-06-12. The Crisis of Ugliness: From Cubism to Pop-Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mikhail 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.
The Total Art of Stalinism
The Total Art of Stalinism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Total Art of Stalinism write by Boris Groys. This book was released on 2014-05-27. The Total Art of Stalinism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists’ goal of producing world-transformative art. In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate that the book has stimulated since its first publication.
Constructivism in Central Europe
Constructivism in Central Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructivism in Central Europe write by Esther Levinger. This book was released on 2022-01-31. Constructivism in Central Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book tells the story of individual artists in Central Europe who believed in art's power to change the world; they imagined a collective of human beings living happily in a free society liberated of injustice and inequality.
The Conspiracy of Modern Art
The Conspiracy of Modern Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Conspiracy of Modern Art write by Luiz Renato Martins. This book was released on 2018-02. The Conspiracy of Modern Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Conspiracy of Modern Art the Brazilian critic and art-historian Luiz Renato Martins presents an engaging new account of modern art from David to Abstract Expressionism. Seen from the megalopolis of Sao Paulo, this art of Paris and New York--which were once seen as touchstones of modernism that embodied Revolution, Thermidor, Bonapartism, and Bourgeois 'Triump'--now pulsates in a tragic, stale, key. Equally attentive to form and politics, Martins invites us to look again at familiar pictures. In the process, modern art appears in a new light. These essays, largely unknown to an English-speaking audience, may be the most important contribution to the account of modern painting since the important debates of the 1980s
Art and Labour
Art and Labour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Labour write by Dave Beech. This book was released on 2020-06-22. Art and Labour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a new history of the changing relationship between art, craft and industry focusing and a new political theory of the categories of aesthetic labour, attractive labour, alienated labour, nonalienated labour and unwaged labour.
