ReNew Marxist Art History

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Cover; Title Page; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; MARXIST THEORY IN PRACTICE; John Roberts, 'Art History's Furies'; Stephen F. Eisenman, 'The Political Logic of Radical Art History in California 1974-85: A Memoir'; Warren Carter, 'The Dialectical Legacies of Radical Art History: Meyer Schapiro and German Aesthetic Debates in the1930s and 1940s'; Stewart Martin, 'Approaching Marx's Aesthetic: Or, What is Sensuous Practice?'; Matthew Beaumont, 'A Communion of Just Men Made Perfect: Walter Pater, Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Paris Commune';From the beginning of the twentieth century until the 1980s, Marxist art history was at the forefront of radical approaches to the discipline. Some of the most influential names in the field were active proponents of Marxist thought: Frederick Antal, Max Raphael, Arnold Hauser, Meyer Schapiro, T.J. Clark, to name just a few. But in the last two decades of the century and into the next, Marxist art historians found themselves marginalized from the vanguard by the rise of postmodernism and identity politics, which began to dominate the subject. This came at a time when Marxism in general w.