Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction - A Counterhistory - Jaleh Mansoor - Paperback Bog - Duke University Press - 2025 - Engelsk -
Brand: Duke University Press
Description
Provides a counter-narrative of modernism and abstraction and a reexamination of Marxist aesthetics. Mansoor draws on Marx’s concept of prostitution—a conceptual device through which Marx allegorized modern labor—to think about the confluences of generalized and gendered labor in modern art.
