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Aesthetics
Author_Todd Cronan
Brecht
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Communism
Eisenstein
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Radicalism
Rodchenko
Socialism
Product details
- ISBN 9781538147108
- Weight: 331g
- Dimensions: 153 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 05 Sep 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Red Aesthetics offers a new way to think about art and politics, focusing on the revolutionary work of Aleksandr Rodchenko, Bertolt Brecht, and Sergei Eisenstein between the wars. Todd Cronan shows how these three artists’ photographs, dramas, films, and writings—centered on class conflict—differ from current left orthodoxies rooted in empathy. Writing against liberal pieties, Cronan contends, following Brecht, that empathy is not the solution to our problems, but more like the source of them.
Todd Cronan is associate professor of Art History at Emory University.
