Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory

by Jaleh Mansoor

Book Overview

In Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction, Jaleh Mansoor 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. Analyzing works ranging from douard Manet's Olympia and Georges Seurat's The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478031751
• ISBN13: 9781478031758
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.