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  • Polish Modernism and Jewish Identity

    The Art of Henryk Streng, 1924-1960

    by Piotr Slodkowski ...
    Translated by Eliza Rose ...
    Modernist painter, socialist realist, Holocaust survivor, and student of the Parisian Avant Garde, Jewish-Polish artist Henryk Streng was extraordinary for his aesthetic innovation during the two major traumas of 20th-century European history, the Holocaust and Stalinism. Yet his legacy in the development of European modernism is rarely acknowledged. In this book, inspired by the 2021 exhibition ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    **From an award-winning cultural theorist, the classic work on the intricate relationship between longing and belonging“A remarkable book… brilliant.”―New York Times**Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors ... Read more

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  • Grand Hotel Abyss

    The Lives of the Frankfurt School

    by Stuart Jeffries ...
    “Marvelously entertaining, exciting and informative.” —Guardian“An engaging and accessible history.” —New York Review of BooksThis group biography is “an exhilarating page-turner” and “outstanding critical introduction” to the work and legacy of the Frankfurt School, and the great 20th-century thinkers who created it (Washington Post).In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and in... ... Read more

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  • Dada and Surrealism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Hopkins ...
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    The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good is Dali?), the idea ... Read more

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  • Art Power

    by Boris Groys ...
    A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art's complex relationship to power.Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    "[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too." — The EconomistAfter Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense ... Read more

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  • Left-Wing Melancholia

    Marxism, History, and Memory

    by Enzo Traverso ...
    Series Book 17 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Marxism and Literary Criticism

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some answers in this wonderfully clear and readable analysis. Sharp and concise, it is, without doubt, the most important work on literary criticism that has emerged out of the tradition of Marxist philosophy and ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics and Politics

    by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukacs ...
    Series series Radical Thinkers
    No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate ... Read more

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  • Gender and Modernity in Central Europe

    The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Its Legacy

    Edited by Agatha Schwartz ...
    At the end of the nineteenth century, Austro-Hungarian society was undergoing a significant re-evaluation of gender roles and identities. Debates on these issues revealed deep anxieties within the multi-ethnic empire that did not resolve themselves with its dissolution in 1918. Concepts of gender and modernity as defined by the Habsburg Monarchy were modified by the conservative, liberal, radical ... Read more

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  • Postcards from Auschwitz

    Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance

    by Daniel P Reynolds ...
    The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorialsEach year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of "Holocaust tourism" and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about the Holocaust?In Postcards from Auschwitz, Daniel P. ... Read more

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  • Marxist Modernism

    Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory

    by Gillian Rose ...
    Lectures on art, Marxism, and critical theory by the legendary philosopher, collected for the first time, with an afterword by Martin JayMarxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School. It is also a new resource from one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophers: Gillian Rose.Her 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School explore the ... Read more

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