Ebook: The Crisis of Ugliness

Intro; ‎Contents; ‎Acknowledgement; ‎List of Illustrations; ‎Notes on Text and Illustrations; ‎Introduction. Mikhail Lifshitz: A Communist Contemporary (Riff); ‎Foreword; ‎Chapter 1. Myth and Reality: The Legend of Cubism; ‎'Scandal in Art'; ‎Two Appraisals of Cubism; ‎G.V. 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; ‎Chapter 2. The Phenomenology of the Soup Can: The Quirks of Taste; ‎The Economy of Painting; ‎Reflection's Malaise; ‎Conclusion