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Book SynopsisFrom the travails of art critical language in the late eighteenth century to the upheaval of the Paris Commune of 1871, from neo-classical art criticism to the Paris Commune of 1871, from Bizet's Carmen and Edith Piaf's song to the culture of gay cruising, this collection of Rifkin's essays map a work beyond any one discipline.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix List of Figures ... xii Introduction: Adrian Rifkin, or from Art History in Ruins to a Lost Object ... 1 Steve Edwards Re-Reading by Torchlight 40 Adrian Rifkin Part 1: New Art Histories 1.1 Art’s Histories (1986) ... 51 1.2 Can Gramsci Save Art History? Traditional Art History – Some Aspects Of The Problem (1981) ... 57 1.3 Marx’ Clarkism (1985) ... 69 1.4 Carmenology (1988) ... 84 1.5 History, Time and the Morphology of Critical Language, or Publicola’s Choice (1994) ... 101 1.6 Bi-Centennial Literature on Art and the French Revolution (1990) ... 115 1.7 The Words of Art, the Artist’s Status: Technique and Affectivity in France (1789–98) (1991) ... 124 1.8 From Structure to Enigma and Back, Perhaps (2005) ... 148 Part 2: Society, Image, Social Difference: Between the Paris Commune, the Salon and the People 2.1 Cultural Movement and the Paris Commune (1979) ... 169 2.2 The Sex of French Politics (1983) ... 196 2.3 No Particular Thing to Mean (1983) ... 206 2.4 Well Formed Phrases: Some Limits of Meaning in Political Print at the End of the Second Empire (1986) ... 229 2.5 Ingres and the Academic Dictionary: An Essay on Ideology and Stupefaction in the Social Formation of the ‘Artist’ (1983) ... 250 2.6 Success Disavowed: The Schools of Design in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain. (An Allegory) (1988) ... 272 2.7 Murals of the Buvette de la Commune – A Pictorial Dossier ... 297 Part 3: Paris and More on the People 3.1 Musical Moments (1987) ... 311 3.2 Parvenu or Palimpsest: Some Tracings of the Jew in Modern France (1995) ... 349 3.3 Il y a des mots qu’on souhaiterait ne plus lire (2005) ... 364 3.4 Gay Paris, Trace and Ruin (2002) ... 376 3.5 Americans Go Home: Which is More American, Paris-Texas or Paris-France? (2004) ... 388 Part 4: Alternatives to the Grander Schemas, or Resistance to the Critique of Grand Narrative as a Form of Grand Narrative 4.1 Down on the Upbeat: Adorno, Benjamin and the Jazz Question (1989) ... 405 4.2 Total Ellipsis: Zola, Benjamin and the Dialectics of Kitsch (1996) ... 416 4.3 The Long Run of Modernity, or an Essay in Post-Dating (1992) ... 434 4.4 Benjamin’s Paris, Freud’s Rome: Whose London? (1999) ... 451 4.5 Bayreuth, World City? Or: The Provincial Village as Global Denkmal (2011) ... 467 Part 5: Postscripts: Different Beginnings 5.1 The Paris Commune of 1871 and Political Print (1979) ... 483 5.2 For an Artist … (2008) ... 494 5.3 No Thing to Regret (2001) ... 497 Bibliography of Writings by Adrian Rifkin (to 2012) ... 501 Bibliography ... 508 Index ... 537
