Red Aesthetics

Synthesizes the work of three titans of mid-century art and critical theory, proposing an aesthetics of the political and artistic left with a deft authority.

Todd Cronan is Associate Professor at Emory University and the author of "Against Affective Formalism: Matisse, Bergson, Modernism" (2014). He is founder and Editor-in-Chief of nonsite.org

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