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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive introduction to Marxist approaches to art history.
Trade Review'No other book has ever attempted this ambitious project with such care and intelligence' -- Professor Barbara McCloskey, University of Pittsburgh
Table of ContentsPreface
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
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