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Universal prostitution and modernist abstraction : a counterhistory

by Jaleh Mansoor

This study re-evaluates modernist abstraction and Marxist aesthetics by analysing how art indexes crises in the political economic base. Drawing on the allegory of prostitution as labour, it explores how artworks resist capitalist processes through form and process.

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