{"product_id":"art-history-as-social-praxis-the-collected-writings-of-david-craven-9781608469949","title":"Art History As Social Praxis: The Collected","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArt 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. This book demonstrates the range and versatility of David Craven's praxis as a 'democratic socialist' art historian who assessed the essential role the visual arts play in imagining more just and equitable societies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eList of Sources\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: David Craven, Democratic Socialism and Art History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e        Artists\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Mondrian De-Mythologised: Towards a Newer Virgil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Charles Biederman and Art Theory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 Marcel Duchamp and the Perceptual Dimension of Conceptual Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Robert Smithson’s ‘Liquidating Intellect’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Richard Serra and the Phenomenology of Perception\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Hans Haacke and the Aesthetics of Dependency Theory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 Norman Lewis as Political Activist and Post-Colonial Artist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 René Magritte and the Spectre of Commodity Fetishism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        Art Critics        \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 Ruskin vs. Whistler: The Case against Capitalist Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 The Critique-Poésie of Thomas Hess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11 John Berger as Art Critic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12 Meyer Schapiro, Karl Korsch, and the Emergence of Critical Theory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13 Clement Greenberg and the ‘Triumph’ of Western Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14 Aesthetics as Ethics in the Writings of Robert Motherwell and Meyer Schapiro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e        Critical Theory        \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15 Prerequisites for a New Criticism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16 Herbert Marcuse on Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e17 Corporate Capitalism and South Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18 Popular Culture versus Mass Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e19 Hegemonic Art History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e20 Art History and the Challenge of Post-Colonial Modernism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e21 C.L.R. James as a Critical Theorist of Modernist Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e22 Present Indicative Politics and Future Perfect Positions: Barack Obama and Third Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e        Latin America        \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e23 Formative Art and Social Transformation: The Nicaraguan Revolution on Its Tenth Anniversary (1979–1989)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e24 Cuban Art and the Democratisation of Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e25 The Latin American Origins of Alternative Modernism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e26 Post-Colonial Modernism in the Work of Diego Rivera and José Carlos Mariátegui\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e27 Realism Revisited and Re-Theorised in ‘Pan-American’ Terms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e        Abstract Expressionism        \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e28 Abstract Expressionism, Automatism, and the Age of Automation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e29 Abstract Expressionism and Third World Art: A Post-Colonial Approach to ‘American’ Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e30 New Documents: The Unpublished F.B.I. Files on Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e31 A Legacy for the Left: Abstract Expressionism as Anti-Imperialist Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e32 Postscript. Different Conceptions of Art: An Outline\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359722668375,"sku":"9781608469949","price":38.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781608469949.jpg?v=1754125521","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/art-history-as-social-praxis-the-collected-writings-of-david-craven-9781608469949","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}