Keywords For Marxist Art History Today

Author : Larne Abse Gogarty,Andrew Hemingway
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783847011149

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Keywords for Marxist Art History Today by Larne Abse Gogarty,Andrew Hemingway Pdf

The mood of systemic crisis that has marked the early 21st century has been accompanied by an upsurge in Marxist thought in a whole range of domains and extends to art history. In this volume 19 scholars from different generations, different national contexts and with different relationships to Marxism reflect on the status of 18 "keywords" with special pertinence to Marxist art-historical inquiry today. Starting point of the researches was the knowledge that while certain keywords have been crucial to recent developments in Marxist art history and cultural theory more broadly, others seem to have slipped out of view. The scholars are not so much interested in the "historical semantics" of words – although that plays some role in the essays – as in the present state of Marxist art history.

Author : Warren Carter,Barnaby Haran,Frederic J. Schwartz
Publisher : Art / Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Communism and art
ISBN : 190897012X

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Renew Marxist Art History by Warren Carter,Barnaby Haran,Frederic J. Schwartz Pdf

From the early decades of the twentieth century until the 1980s, Marxist art history was at the forefront of radical approaches to the discipline. But in the last two decades of the century and into the next, Marxist art historians found themselves marginalized from the vanguard by the rise of postmodernism and identity politics. In the wake of the recent global crisis there has been a resurgence of interest in Marx. Now available in paperback, this collection of essays, a festschrift in honor of leading Marxist art historian Andrew Hemingway, brings together 30 academics who are reshaping art history along Marxist lines. The essayists include Matthew Beaumont, Warren Carter, Michael Corris, Gail Day, Paul Jaskot, Stewart Martin, Frederic J. Schwartz, Caroline Arscott, Steve Edwards, Charles Ford, Brian Foss, Tom Gretton, Alan Wallach, Michael Bird, Martin I. Gaughan, Barnaby Haran and Fred Orton, among others.

Author : Ian Horton,Maggie Gray
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9783031073533

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Art History for Comics by Ian Horton,Maggie Gray Pdf

This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how they can be applied to Comics Studies in the present and future. It unearths how early comics scholars deployed art-historical approaches, including stylistic analysis, iconography, Cultural History and the social history of art, and proposes how such methodologies, updated in light of disciplinary developments within Art History, could be usefully adopted in the study of comics today. Through a series of indicative case studies of British and American comics like Eagle, The Mighty Thor, 2000AD, Escape and Heartbreak Hotel, it argues that art-historical methods better address overlooked aspects of visual and material form. Bringing Art History back into the interdisciplinary nexus of comics scholarship raises some fundamental questions about the categories, frameworks and values underlying contemporary Comics Studies.

Author : Tom Wilkinson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262546805

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Emergency Money by Tom Wilkinson Pdf

A landmark art historical study of German Notgeld, the emergency money produced during World War I, and the hyperinflation that followed. Emergency Money is the first art historical study of Germany’s emergency money, Notgeld. Issued during World War I and the tumultuous interwar period, these wildly artful banknotes featured landscapes, folk figures, scenes of violence and humor, and even inflation itself in the form of figures staring into empty purses or animals defecating coins. Until now, art historians have paid Notgeld scant attention, but Wilkinson looks closely at these amusing, often disturbing, artifacts and their grim associations to cast new light on the Weimar Republic’s visual culture, as well as the larger relationship between art and money. As Wilkinson shows, Germany’s early twentieth-century economic crisis was also a crisis of culture. Retelling the period’s gripping story through thematic investigations into prevalent Notgeld motifs, Wilkinson illuminates how the vexed relationship between aesthetic value and exchange value was an inextricable part of everyday life. A landmark contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century Germany, Emergency Money brings together art, economics, critical theory, and media theory to create a book for our own inflationary moment, as the world’s new materialisms confront the specter of this older, more fundamental materialism.

Author : Gen Doy
Publisher : Berg 3pl
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015045655308

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Materializing Art History by Gen Doy Pdf

Item discusses Marxist art history in relation to the social history of art.

Author : Sarah E. James
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262046565

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Paper Revolutions by Sarah E. James Pdf

The experimental practices of a group of artists in the former East Germany upends assumptions underpinning Western art’s postwar histories. In Paper Revolutions, Sarah James offers a radical rethinking of experimental art in the former East Germany (the GDR). Countering conventional accounts that claim artistic practices in the GDR were isolated and conservative, James introduces a new narrative of neo-avantgarde practice in the Eastern Bloc that subverts many of the assumptions underpinning Western art’s postwar histories. She grounds her argument in the practice of four artists who, uniquely positioned outside academies, museums, and the art market, as these functioned in the West, created art in the blind spots of state censorship. They championed ephemeral practices often marginalized by art history: postcards and letters, maquettes and models, portfolios and artists’ books. Through their “lived modernism,” they produced bodies of work animated by the radical legacies of the interwar avant-garde. James examines the work and daily practices of the constructivist graphic artist, painter, and sculptor Hermann Glöckner; the experimental graphic artist and concrete and sound poet Carlfriedrich Claus; the mail artist, concrete poet, and conceptual artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt; and the mail artist, “visual poet,” and installation artist Karla Sachse. She shows that all of these artists rejected the idea of art as a commodity or a rarefied object, and instead believed in the potential of art to create collectivized experiences and change the world. James argues that these artists, entirely neglected by Western art history, produced some of the most significant experimental art to emerge from Germany during the Cold War.

Author : Anne D'Alleva,Michael Cothren
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781529423204

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Methods & Theories of Art History Third Edition by Anne D'Alleva,Michael Cothren Pdf

This book is an accessible introduction to the critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments, controversies and divergent perspectives. This edition has been updated to reflect recent scholarship in contemporary art and has been broken down into smaller sections for greater accessibility. The book begins with a revised discussion of the difference between method and theory. The following chapters apply the varying approaches to works of art, some of them new to this edition. The book ends with a new conclusion that focuses on the way the study of art is informed by theory.

Author : Andrew Hemingway
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015067660319

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Marxism and the History of Art by Andrew Hemingway Pdf

The first comprehensive introduction to Marxist approaches to art history. 'The best in the field.' --Esther Leslie

Author : Frederic J. Schwartz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262047708

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The Culture of the Case by Frederic J. Schwartz Pdf

How artists in twentieth-century Germany adapted the idea of the medical or legal case as an artistic strategy to push to the fore sexualities, scandals, and crimes that were otherwise concealed. In early twentieth-century Germany, the artistic avant-garde borrowed procedures from the medical and juridical realms to expose and debate matters that society preferred remain hidden and unspoken. Frederic J. Schwartz explores how the evocation or creation of a “case” provided artists with a means to engage themes that ranged from blasphemy to Lustmord, or sexual murder. Shedding light on the case as a cultural form, Schwartz shows its profound effect on artists and the ways it dovetailed with methods used by these figures to exploit fundamental changes taking place across the mass media of their time. As Schwartz shows, the case was a common denominator that connected seemingly disparate works. George Grosz and Rudolf Schlichter drew on it for their violent visual art, as did architect Adolf Loos when he equated ornament with crime. Expressionists, meanwhile, approached the question of whether the so-called “mad” shared a right of public expression with those deemed sane, and examined medical and legal approaches to what society labeled as insanity. The case also took on a personal dimension when artists found themselves confronted with, or chose to engage with, the legal system. German courts prosecuted John Heartfield and others for their provocative works, while Bertolt Brecht created publicity for himself by suing the firm to whom he sold the film rights to The Threepenny Opera. Provocative and insightful, The Culture of the Case offers a privileged view of the spaces of representation in which images—in some instances, as cases—functioned at a key moment of modernity.

Author : Annie Makhoul,Simon Morley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781118768945

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The Winchester Guide to Keywords and Concepts for International Students in Art, Media and Design by Annie Makhoul,Simon Morley Pdf

This welcome new resource for international students in art, design, and media provides clear explanations of the terminology they must master in order to fulfill their academic potential and enrich their professional careers. Offers a much-requested new resource that fills a gap in the academic market Tailored specifically to the needs of international students in art, design, and media Color-coded key words and phrases for quick reference Includes sections on study skills, academic expectations in Western institutions, methodologies, and important theorists An ideal handbook for curators and gallery staff everywhere for whom English is a non-native language

Author : The Keywords Project,Colin MacCabe,Holly Yanacek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190636593

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Keywords for Today by The Keywords Project,Colin MacCabe,Holly Yanacek Pdf

Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of the language in order to better understand our contemporary world. From nature to cultural appropriation and from market to terror, the most important words in political and cultural debate have complicated and complex histories. This book sketches these histories in ways that illuminate the political bent and values of our current society. Written by The Keywords Project, an independent group of scholars who have spent more than a decade on this work, Keywords for Today updates and extends Raymond Williams's classic work, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. It updates some 40 of Williams's original entries and adds 86 new entries, ranging from access to youth. The book is both a history of English, documenting important semantic change in the language, and a handbook of current political and ideological debate. Whether it is demonstrating the only recently-acquired religious meaning of fundamentalism or the complicated linguistic history of queer, Keywords for Today will intrigue and enlighten.

Author : Margaret A. Rose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521369797

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Marx's Lost Aesthetic by Margaret A. Rose Pdf

An original and challenging study of Marxist aesthetic theory from an art-historical perspective.

Author : David Craven
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004235861

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Art History as Social Praxis by David Craven Pdf

Art History as Social Praxis: The Collected Writings of David Craven brings together more than thirty essays that chart the development of Craven’s voice as an unorthodox Marxist who applied historical materialism to the study of modern art.

Author : Berel Lang,Forrest Williams
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015012136043

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Marxism and Art by Berel Lang,Forrest Williams Pdf

Author : Kristina Jõekalda,Krista Kodres,Michaela Marek
Publisher : Böhlau Köln
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783412516680

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A Socialist Realist History? by Kristina Jõekalda,Krista Kodres,Michaela Marek Pdf

How did the Eastern European and Soviet states write their respective histories of art and architecture during 1940s–1960s? The articles address both the Stalinist period and the Khrushchev Thaw, when the Marxist-Leninist discourse on art history was "invented" and refined. Although this discourse was inevitably "Sovietized" in a process dictated from Moscow, a variety of distinct interpretations emerged from across the Soviet bloc in the light of local traditions, cultural politics and decisions of individual authors. Even if the new "official" discourse often left space open for national concerns, it also gave rise to a countermovement in response to the aggressive ideologization of art and the preeminence assigned to (Socialist) Realist aesthetics.