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Author:   Andrew Hemingway
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.427kg
ISBN:  

9780745323299

ISBN 10:   0745323294
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   20 July 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction: Marxism and Art History after the New Left by Andrew Hemingway 2. William Morris: Decoration and Materialism by Caroline Arscott 3. Mikhail Lifshits: A Marxist Conservative by Stanley Mitchell 4. Frederick Antal by Paul Stirton 5. Art as Social Consciousness: Francis Klingender and British Art by David Bindman 6. Max Raphael: Aesthetics and Politics by Stanley Mitchell 7. Walter Benjamin’s Essay on Eduard Fuchs: An Art-Historical Perspective by Frederic J. Schwartz 8. Meyer Schapiro: Marxism, Science and Art by Andrew Hemingway 9. Henri Lefebvre and the Moment of the Aesthetic by Marc Léger 10. Arnold Hauser, Adorno, Lukács and the Ideal Spectator by John Roberts 11. New Left Art History and Fascism in Germany by Jutta Held 12. The Turn from Marx to Warburg in West German Art History, 1968-90 by Otto Karl Werckmeister Index

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No other book has ever attempted this ambitious project with such care and intelligence. ... Important, timely, and provocative. -- Professor Barbara McCloskey, University of Pittsburgh [This] could be a defining text. -- Professor Paul Jaskot, De Paul University Chicago

[This] could be a defining text. -- Professor Paul Jaskot, De Paul University Chicago No other book has ever attempted this ambitious project with such care and intelligence. ... Important, timely, and provocative. -- Professor Barbara McCloskey, University of Pittsburgh

'There is no other book that has ever attempted this ambitious project with such care and intelligence.... This is important, timely, and provocative.' Professor Barbara McCloskey, University of Pittsburgh '[This book] could be a defining text at what can only be described as a moment of world historical transformation.' Professor Paul Jaskot, De Paul University Chicago 'The best in the field of materialist art history.' Esther Leslie

Author Information

Andrew Hemingway is Professor of History of Art at University College London. He is the editor of Marxism and the History of Art (Pluto, 2006) and author of Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-56 (2002).

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