David Riff Translator (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, x + 155pp + 37 pages of colour plates, NOT ex-library. Limited mild handling wear, short creases to boards' edges. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- "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, 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. -- Contents: Acknowledgement; List of Illustrations; Notes on Text and 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 [Georgi 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition, showing only faint rubbing to surfaces, modest bump at top of spine and minor shelving wear to edges/corners; otherwise in fine shape with tight binding and clean, bright pages throughout. A sharp copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 153 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.