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Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction : A Counterhistory
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction : A Counterhisto
- ISBN
- 9781478031758
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
1478031751
ISBN-13
9781478031758
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23070939629
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction : a Counterhistory
Publication Year
2025
Subject
Criticism & Theory, General, Political Ideologies / General, History / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Political Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2024-041585
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Featuring brilliant ideas and sharp theoretical insights, Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction makes a very important contribution to the understanding of key forms and genres in twentieth-century art in general as well as to the more pointed discussion of art's relationship to the subsumption of life under capital. I know of no other book that traces painterly abstraction and other artistic approaches to abstraction in the broader sense of the term across the longer arc of modern and contemporary art., Drawing on Marx's passage on 'universal prostitution,' Jaleh Mansoor develops an astute analysis of the economically unconscious of modern and contemporary art. Focusing on the dialectics between aesthetic and social abstractions, Mansoor spans an arc from Seurat's Models to Picabia's and Tiqqun's Young-Girl , referring to labor-reflective works by Hito Steyerl, Santiago Sierra, Hannah Black, and others. She guides us through the manifold ways art mediates the imperceptible totality of human life., Based on Marx' passage on 'universal prostitution,' Jaleh Mansoor develops an astute analysis of the economically unconscious of modern and contemporary art. With focus on the dialectics between aesthetic and social abstractions, the author spans an arc from Seurat's Models over Picabia's and Tiqqun's Young-Girl , referring to labor reflective works by Hito Steyerl, Santiago Serra, Hanna Black, and others. She guides us through the manifold ways art mediates the imperceptible totality of human life., Drawing on Marx's passage on 'universal prostitution,' Jaleh Mansoor develops an astute analysis of the economic unconscious of modern and contemporary art. Focusing on the dialectics between aesthetic and social abstractions, Mansoor spans an arc from Seurat's Models to Picabia's and Tiqqun's Young-Girl s, referring to labor-reflective works by Hito Steyerl, Santiago Sierra, Hannah Black, and others. She guides us through the manifold ways art mediates the imperceptible totality of human life.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
709.04
Table Of Content
Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1. Toward a Materialist Formalism 1 Introduction 2. Modernism's Aesthetic Economy: An Art History of Labor's Subsumption 25 1. Georges Seurat's Muses, Abstracted: Abstract Anonymous Labor and the Beginnings of Aesthetic Abstraction 51 2. Francis Picabia's Real Abstraction and the Beginnings of Futurist Cyborgs: The Prefigurative Avant-Gardes 78 3. The Future of the Futurists: The Young-Girl; En/gendering Real Abstraction 104 4. The [Young-Girl] Worker as Equipment: Yves Klein's Living Paintbrushes 133 5. Surplus Bodies: Santiago Sierra's Exploitive Remuneration 157 Conclusion 177 Notes 197 Bibliography 213 Index 225
Synopsis
In Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction , Jaleh Mansoor provides a counternarrative 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. Analyzing works ranging from Édouard Manet's Olympia and Georges Seurat's The Models to contemporary work by Hito Steyerl and Hannah Black, she shows how avant-garde artists can detect changing modes of production and capitalist and biopolitical processes of abstraction that assign identities to subjects in the interest of value's impersonal circulation. She demonstrates that art and abstraction resist modes of production and subjugation at the level of process and form rather than through referential representation. By studying gendered and generalized labor, abstraction, automation, and the worker, Mansoor shifts focus away from ideology, superstructure, and culture toward the ways art indexes crisis and transformation in the political economic base. Ultimately, she traces the outlines of a counterpraxis to capital while demonstrating how artworks give us a way to see through the abstractions of everyday life., Jaleh Mansoor provides a counter narrative of modernism and abstraction, showing how art and abstraction resist modes of production at the level of process and form rather than representation.
LC Classification Number
N6494.M64M357 2025
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