CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. PREFACE
  3. Warren Carter, Barnaby Haran and Frederic J. Schwartz
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. Warren Carter, ‘Towards a History of the Marxist History of Art’
  6. MARXIST THEORY IN PRACTICE
  7. John Roberts, ‘Art History’s Furies’
  8. Stephen F. Eisenman, ‘The Political Logic of Radical Art History in California 1974–85: A Memoir’
  9. Warren Carter, ‘The Dialectical Legacies of Radical Art History: Meyer Schapiro and German Aesthetic Debates in the1930s and 1940s’
  10. Stewart Martin, ‘Approaching Marx’s Aesthetic: Or, What is Sensuous Practice?’
  11. Matthew Beaumont, ‘A Communion of Just Men Made Perfect: Walter Pater, Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Paris Commune’
  12. Norbert Schneider, ‘What Remains of Adorno’s Critique of Culture?’
  13. Frederic J. Schwartz, ‘Aby Warburg and the Spirit of Capitalism’
  14. LANDSCAPE, CLASS AND IDEOLOGY
  15. Alan Wallach, ‘A Note on Aestheticizing Tendencies in American Landscape Painting 1840–80’
  16. Brian Foss, ‘Meaning, Change and Ambiguity in Canadian Landscape Imagery: Homer Watson and The Pioneer Mill’
  17. Charles Ford, ‘“One spectator is a better witness than ten listeners”: Roger North, Making the Past Public’
  18. Steve Edwards, ‘An “Ever-Recurring Controversy”: John Thompson, William James Stillman and the Bootblacks’
  19. Tom Gretton, ‘Calaveras and Commodity Fetishism: The Unhallowed Supernatural in the Work of José Guadalupe Posada’
  20. Angela Miller, ‘Reading Ahab: Rockwell Kent, Herman Melville and C. L. R. James’
  21. Caroline Arscott, ‘William Morris, Ornament and the Coordinates of the Body’
  22. MARXISM AND THE SHAPING OF MODERNISM
  23. Barnaby Haran, ‘Red Hashar: Louis Lozowick’s Lithographs of Soviet Tajikstan’
  24. Martin I. Gaughan, ‘Lu Märten and the Question of a Marxist Aesthetic in 1920s Germany’
  25. Rachel Sanders, ‘Experiment and Propaganda: Art in the Monthly New Masses’
  26. Jody Patterson, ‘Stuart Davis and Left Modernism on the New York Waterfront in the 1930s’
  27. Fred Orton, ‘Action, Revolution and Painting: Resumed’
  28. James A. van Dyke, ‘Erasure and Jewishness in Otto Dix’s Portrait of the Lawyer Hugo Simons’
  29. Paul B. Jaskot, ‘The Nazi Party’s Strategic Use of the Bauhaus: Marxist Art History and the Political Conditions of Artistic Production’
  30. MARXISM IN A NEW WORLD ORDER
  31. Alex Potts, ‘Realism and Materialism in Postwar European Art’
  32. Frances Stracey, ‘The Situation of Women’
  33. Peter Smith, ‘Photography, Language and the Pictorial Turn’
  34. Chin-tao Wu, ‘Scars on the Landscape: Doris Salcedo Between Two Worlds’
  35. Gail Day, ‘Realism, Totality and the Militant Citoyen’: or, What Does Lukács Have to Do with Contemporary Art?
  36. Kerstin Stakemeier, ‘Deartification This Side of Art: Ideology Critique, Autonomy and Reproduction’
  37. Notes on the contributors
  38. Index
  39. Copyright