Language: English
Published by Art Books Publishing Ltd., London, 2013
ISBN 10: 190897012X ISBN 13: 9781908970121
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st. 520 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Published in association with the Department of History of Art, University College London. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. *** "From the early decades of the 20th century until the 1980s, Marxist art history was at the forefront of radical approaches to the discipline. This collection of essays a festschrift in honour of leading Marxist art historian Andrew Hemingway brings together thirty academics who are reshaping art history along Marxist lines." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction. Towards a history of the Marxist history of art, by Warren Carter; MARXIST THEORY IN PRACTICE. Art history's furies, by John Roberts; The political logic of radical art history in California 1974-85: a memoir, by Stephen F. Eisenman; The dialectical legacies of radical art history: Meyer Shapiro and German aesthetic debates in the 1930s and 1940s, by Warren Carter; Approaching Marx's aesthetic: Or, what is sensuous practice?, by Stewart Martin; A communion of just men made perfect: Walter Pater, romantic anti-capitalism and the Paris Commune, by Matthew Beaumont; What remains of Adorno's critique of culture?, by Norbert Schneider; Aby Warburg and the spirit of capitalism, by Frederic J. Schwartz; LANDSCAPE, CLASS AND IDEOLOGY. A note on aestheticizing tendencies in American landscape painting 1840-80, by Alan Wallach; Meaning, change and ambiguity in Canadian landscape imagery: Homer Watson and The Pioneer mill, by Brian Foss; One spectator is a better witness than ten listeners: Roger North, making the past public, by Charles Ford; An ever-recurring controversy: John Thompson, William James Stillman and the Bootblacks, by Steve Edwards; Calaveras and commodity fetishism: the unhallowed supernatural in the work of Jose Guadalupe Posada, by Tom Gretton; Reading Ahab: Rockwell Kent, Herman Melville and C.L.R. James, by Angela Miller; William Morris, ornament and the coordinates of the body, by Caroline Arscott; MARXISM AND THE SHAPING OF MODERNISM. Red Hashar: Louis Lozowick's lithographs of Soviet Tajikstan, by Barnaby Haran; Lu Marten and the question of Marxist aesthetic in 1920s German, by Martin I. Gaughan; Experiment and propaganda: art in the monthly New masses, by Rachel Sanders; Stuart Davis and Left modernism on the New York waterfront in the 1920s, by Jody Patterson; Action, revolution and painting: resumed, by Fred Orton; Erasure and Jewishness in Otto Dix's Portraint of the lawyer Hugo Simons, by James A. van Dyke; The Nazi Party's strategic use of the Bauhaus: Marxist art history and the political conditions of artistic production, by Paul B. Jaskot; MARXISM IN A NEW WORLD ORDER. Realism and materialism in postwar European art, by Alex Potts; The situation of women, by Frances Tracey; Scars on the landscape: Doris Salcedo between two worlds, by Chin-tao Wu; Realism, totality and the militant Citoyen: or, What does Lukacs have to do with contemporary art?, by Gail Day; Deartification this side of art: ideology critique, autonomy and reproduction, by Kerstin Stakemeier. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
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Soft Cover. Condition: Fine-. 224 pages, illustrated in b&w. "The house that Robert Venturi designed for his mother in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, and had built in 1964, is arguably the most architecturally influential building o the second half of the 20th century." FINE- SOFTCOVER Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, oblong.