Art history as social praxis: the collected writings of David Craven

583 Pages·2017·1.931 MB·English

by  Craven, David;Winkenweder, Brian

ArtHistoryasSocialPraxis
Historical Materialism
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Art History as Social Praxis
TheCollectedWritingsof DavidCraven
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BrianWinkenweder
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Contents
Acknowledgements xi
ListofSources xiv
Introduction:DavidCraven,DemocraticSocialismandArtHistory 1
part 1
Artists
1 MondrianDe-Mythologised:TowardsaNewerVirgil 41
2 CharlesBiedermanandArtTheory 57
3 MarcelDuchampandthePerceptualDimensionofConceptual
Art 69
4 RobertSmithson’s‘LiquidatingIntellect’ 77
5 RichardSerraandthePhenomenologyofPerception 90
6 HansHaackeandtheAestheticsofDependencyTheory 98
7 NormanLewisasPoliticalActivistandPost-ColonialArtist 107
8 RenéMagritteandtheSpectreofCommodityFetishism 124
part 2
ArtCritics
9 Ruskinvs.Whistler:TheCaseagainstCapitalistArt 141
10 TheCritique-PoésieofThomasHess 155
11 JohnBergerasArtCritic 172
viii contents
12 MeyerSchapiro,KarlKorschandtheEmergenceofCritical
Theory 188
13 ClementGreenbergandthe‘Triumph’ofWesternArt 217
14 AestheticsasEthicsintheWritingsofRobertMotherwellandMeyer
Schapiro 228
part 3
CriticalTheory
15 PrerequisitesforaNewCriticism 243
16 HerbertMarcuseonAesthetics 256
17 CorporateCapitalismandSouthAfrica 264
18 PopularCultureversusMassCulture 277
19 HegemonicArtHistory 288
20 ArtHistoryandtheChallengeofPost-ColonialModernism 295
21 C.L.R.JamesasaCriticalTheoristofModernistArt 303
22 PresentIndicativePoliticsandFuturePerfectPositions:Barack
ObamaandThirdText 325
part 4
LatinAmerica
23 FormativeArtandSocialTransformation:TheNicaraguanRevolution
onItsTenthAnniversary(1979–1989) 333
24 CubanArtandtheDemocratisationofCulture 340
25 TheLatinAmericanOriginsofAlternativeModernism 363
contents ix
26 Post-ColonialModernismintheWorkofDiegoRiveraandJoséCarlos
Mariátegui 381
27 RealismRevisitedandRe-Theorisedin‘Pan-American’Terms 396
part 5
AbstractExpressionism
28 AbstractExpressionism,AutomatismandtheAgeof
Automation 407
29 AbstractExpressionismandThirdWorldArt:APost-Colonial
Approachto‘American’Art 447
30 NewDocuments:TheUnpublishedfbiFilesonAdReinhardt,Mark
Rothko,andAdolphGottlieb 490
31 ALegacyfortheLatinAmericanLeft:AbstractExpressionismas
Anti-ImperialistArt 502
32 Postscript.DifferentConceptionsofArt:AnOutline 513
Bibliography 517
Index 553