Lot's Wife and The Venus Of Milo

Cambridge, U.K./NY: Cambridge University Press, 1978. hardcover in dust jacket., front flap of dj has price-clip. no other flaws, clean, no writing or markings, tight binding.; 171pp., art and literature during first decades of soviet union.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback / softback. New. Professor Thompson's subject is the uneasy position of art within Marxist ideology: what part can the arts of the past play in the new society? This 1978 book discusses the problems and paradoxes surrounding this question from a general theoretical point of view and in the work of individual artists.