Modernism and Hegemony

A Materialist Critique of Aesthetic Agencies

1990
Author:

Neil Larsen
Foreword by Jaime Concha

A critique of high modernism from a newly formulated Marxist perspective, achieved through analyses of texts by Marx and Adorno, Manet’s paintings, and the works of several Latin American writers.

A critique of high modernism from a newly formulated Marxist perspective, achieved through analyses of texts by Marx and Adorno, Manet’s paintings, and the works of several Latin American writers.

Neil Larsen is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California Davis.

Jaime Concha is a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

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