Red Aesthetics - Rodchenko, Brecht, Eisenstein

Synthesizes the work of three titans of mid-century art and critical theory, proposing an aesthetics of the political and artistic left with a deft authority.

List of contents

Introduction: An Exact Picture of the World
Chapter 1: The Great Production:
Rodchenko/Brecht/Eisenstein with and against Adorno and Barthes
Chapter 2: Rodchenko's Photographic Communism
Chapter 3: Art and Political Consequence: Brecht's Critique of Affect
Chapter 4: Seeing Differently and Seeing Correctly: Brecht on Artistic and Political Abstraction
Chapter 5: Class into Race: Brecht, Adorno, and the Problem of State Capitalism
Chapter 6: Relentlessness: Eisenstein's Automatic Writing

About the author

Todd Cronan is Associate Professor at Emory University and the author of "Against Affective Formalism: Matisse, Bergson, Modernism" (2014). He is founder and Editor-in-Chief of nonsite.org

Summary

Synthesizes the work of three titans of mid-century art and critical theory, proposing an aesthetics of the political and artistic left with a deft authority.

Product details

• Authors: Todd Cronan, Cronan Todd
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781538147092
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4709-2
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Cultural Studies and Marxism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; USA, ART / American / General, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, United States of America, USA, Communism;Radicalism;Socialism