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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

Todd Cronan is associate professor of Art History at Emory University.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Todd Cronan, Cronan Todd, Cronan Todd Cronan
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781538147108
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4710-8
• Pagine: 204
• Serie: Cultural Studies and Marxism
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Altro; 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, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, Communism;Radicalism;Socialism