- Radek, Karl 1
- Radek Community 1, 2, 3;
- Manifestations 1
- radical art history 1, 2, 3;
- see aslo leftism: leftist art history; Marxist art history
- Radkau, Joachim 1
- Radziwill, Franz 1
- Raether, Johannes Paul 1
- Rahv, Philip 1
- Rancière, Jacques 1
- Rand, Ayn 1
- Raphael 1, 2
- Raphael, Max 1, 2, 3;
- ‘The Marxist Theory of Art’ 1
- Rauschenberg, Robert 1
- Read, Herbert 1
- Reade, R. C. 1
- Reagan, Ronald 1, 2
- realism, realists 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33;
- see aslo critical realism; epic realism; magic realism; materialist realism; neo-realism; social realism; socialist realism; Socialist Realism (Soviet); Realism; realist painting
- Realism 1, 2, 3;
- see aslo Courbet, Gustave
- realist painting 1, 2, 3;
- see aslo realism, realists
- Reard, Louis 1
- Rector, Martin 1
- Red Army, Soviet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Redon, Odilon 1
- Rees, A. L. 1
- Reformation, the 1, 2, 3
- Refregier, Anton 1
- Reichswirtschaftsverband bildender Künstler 1
- Reid, George Agnew 1, 2;
- Logging 1;
- Staking a Pioneer Farm 1;
- The Arrival of the Pioneers 1
- reification 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- Reisman, Philip 1
- relational art 1;
- see aslo post-relational art
- Rembrandt van Rijn 1, 2
- Renaissance, the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- Renoir, Auguste 1, 2
- Renzio, Toni del 1
- representation, critique of 1
- representation, modes of 1, 2
- representation, politics of 1, 2, 3
- reproductive labour 1;
- see aslo labour
- Resnais, Alain 1
- Ressler, Oliver 1, 2
- revolutionary action 1, 2, 3, 4
- revolutionary art 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- revolutionary consciousness 1, 2, 3
- revolutionary politics 1, 2, 3, 4
- revolutionary practice 1, 2
- Reynolds, Joshua 1
- Richter, Hans 1
- Riegl, Alois 1, 2
- Riesel, René 1
- Rifkin, Adrian 1, 2
- Riis, Jacob 1
- Ritschl, Albrecht 1
- Rivera, Diego 1, 2, 3
- Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1
- Robbins, Daniel 1
- Robert Henri School of Art, New York 1
- Roberts, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Robeson, Paul 1
- Robinson, Boardman 1
- Robinson, H. P. 1
- Rodchenko, Aleksandr 1
- Roeck, Bernd 1, 2
- Rohe, Mies van der 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- romantic anti-capitalism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Romanticism 1, 2
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
- see aslo New Deal
- Rosenberg, Alfred 1, 2
- Rosenberg, Arthur 1
- Rosenberg, Harold 1, 2, 3;
- ‘Character Change and the Drama’ 1, 2, 3, 4;
- ‘Modern Art? Or an Art of the Modern?’ 1;
- ‘Myth and History’ 1;
- ‘Tenth Street: A Geography of Modern Art’ 1;
- ‘The American Action Painters’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
- ‘The Fall of Paris’ 1, 2, 3;
- ‘The Front’ 1, 2, 3;
- ‘The Men on the Wall’ 1;
- ‘The New Realism’ 1;
- ‘The Pathos of the Proletariat’ 1, 2, 3, 4;
- ‘The Resurrected Romans’ 1
- Rosetti, Dante Gabriel 1
- Rosler, Martha 1, 2, 3
- Ross, Kristin 1
- Rossiter, Thomas 1
- ROSTA, Berlin 1
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1
- Rowlandson, Thomas 1
- Royal Academy of Arts (Berlin) 1
- ruling class, the 1, 2;
- see aslo patrician class, the; upper classes
- Ruskin, John 1, 2, 3
- Russell, Lord (William) 1
- Russian art 1, 2, 3, 4;
- see also Russian avant-garde;
- Socialist Realism (Soviet);
- Soviet art, Soviet art theory
- Russian Association of Revolutionary Writers (RAPP) 1
- Russian avant-garde 1, 2;
- see aslo Soviet avant-garde
- Russian Formalism 1, 2
- Russian–French Non-Aggression Pact (1935) 1, 2
- Russian–German Non-Aggression Pact (1939) 1
- Russian Revolution 1, 2, 3
- Ryan, Joseph P. 1, 2
- Ryder, Albert Pinkham 1, 2, 3