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Article: Reading Karl Marx.
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- January 1, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Visual Studies Workshop. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Rainer Ganahl
London: Book Works, 2001
From a material perspective. Reading Karl Marx is a handsome book. It is simple in appearance, tasteful in design, short on text and decked out with color photographs. It is the kind of book whose seductive looks and serious title seem like a profound contradiction in terms, an ambiguous collision of rhetoric at the levels of design and meaning. Marxism, with its penchant for manifestos typeset in Courier and the use of photocopiers to involve the masses, arrives like a pink (the color of the cover) blast from the offset-printed design annuals to announce a material dialectic that is arguably revolutionary.
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