Red Aesthetics

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

• Introduction: An Exact Picture of the World Chapter 1: The Great Production: Rodchenko/Brecht/Eisenstein with and against Adorno and BarthesChapter 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

[E]ngages in a rigorous Marxist analysis of artistic expression and its relation to society…. Acknowledging in the preface a debt to conferences, symposia, and critical engagement among colleagues, the book reads like an extended seminar. The discussions on Rodchenko and Eisenstein are accompanied by a selection of photographs. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.