Red Aesthetics: Rodchenko Brecht Eisenstein

Red Aesthetics offers a new way to think about art and politics, focusing on the revolutionary work of Aleksandr Rodchenko, Bertolt Brecht, and Sergei Eisenstein between the wars. Todd Cronan shows how these three artists’ photographs, dramas, films, and writings-centered on class conflict-differ from current left orthodoxies rooted in empathy. Writing against liberal pieties, Cronan contends, following Brecht, that empathy is not the solution to our problems, but more like the source of them. Red Aesthetics: Rodchenko, Brecht, Eisenstein is written by Todd Cronan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBNs for Red Aesthetics are 9781538147122, 1538147122 and the print ISBNs are 9781538147092, 1538147092.