Art history as social praxis : the collected writings of David Craven / edited by Brian Winkenweder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craven, David, 1951-2012, author.

Contributor:

Winkenweder, Brian, editor.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; Volume 139.

Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volume 139

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (583 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [The Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : BRILL, 2017.

Summary:

Art History as Social Praxis: The Collected Writings of David Craven brings together more than thirty essays that chart the development of Craven’s voice as an unorthodox Marxist who applied historical materialism to the study of modern art. This book demonstrates the range and versatility of David Craven’s praxis as a ‘democratic socialist’ art historian who assessed the essential role the visual arts play in imagining more just and equitable societies. The essays collected here reveal Craven’s lifelong commitment to exposing interstices between western and non-western cultures by researching the reciprocating influences between First- and Third-World artists, critics and historians.

Contents:

Front Matter / Brian Winkenweder

David Craven, Democratic Socialism and Art History / Brian Winkenweder

Mondrian De-Mythologised: Towards a Newer Virgil / Brian Winkenweder

Charles Biederman and Art Theory / Brian Winkenweder

Marcel Duchamp and the Perceptual Dimension of Conceptual Art / Brian Winkenweder

Robert Smithson’s ‘Liquidating Intellect’ / Brian Winkenweder

Richard Serra and the Phenomenology of Perception / Brian Winkenweder

Hans Haacke and the Aesthetics of Dependency Theory / Brian Winkenweder

Norman Lewis as Political Activist and Post-Colonial Artist / Brian Winkenweder

René Magritte and the Spectre of Commodity Fetishism / Brian Winkenweder

Ruskin vs. Whistler: The Case against Capitalist Art / Brian Winkenweder

The Critique-Poésie of Thomas Hess / Brian Winkenweder

John Berger as Art Critic / Brian Winkenweder

Meyer Schapiro, Karl Korsch and the Emergence of Critical Theory / Brian Winkenweder

Clement Greenberg and the ‘Triumph’ of Western Art / Brian Winkenweder

Aesthetics as Ethics in the Writings of Robert Motherwell and Meyer Schapiro / Brian Winkenweder

Prerequisites for a New Criticism / Brian Winkenweder

Herbert Marcuse on Aesthetics / Brian Winkenweder

Corporate Capitalism and South Africa / Brian Winkenweder

Popular Culture versus Mass Culture / Brian Winkenweder

Hegemonic Art History / Brian Winkenweder

Art History and the Challenge of Post-Colonial Modernism / Brian Winkenweder

C.L.R. James as a Critical Theorist of Modernist Art / Brian Winkenweder

Present Indicative Politics and Future Perfect Positions: Barack Obama and Third Text / Brian Winkenweder

Formative Art and Social Transformation: The Nicaraguan Revolution on Its Tenth Anniversary (1979–1989) / Brian Winkenweder

Cuban Art and the Democratisation of Culture / Brian Winkenweder

The Latin American Origins of Alternative Modernism / Brian Winkenweder

Post-Colonial Modernism in the Work of Diego Rivera and José Carlos Mariátegui / Brian Winkenweder

Realism Revisited and Re-Theorised in ‘Pan-American’ Terms / Brian Winkenweder

Abstract Expressionism, Automatism and the Age of Automation / Brian Winkenweder

Abstract Expressionism and Third World Art: A Post-Colonial Approach to ‘American’ Art / Brian Winkenweder

New Documents: The Unpublished FBI Files on Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and Adolph Gottlieb / Brian Winkenweder

A Legacy for the Latin American Left: Abstract Expressionism as Anti-Imperialist Art / Brian Winkenweder

Postscript. Different Conceptions of Art: An Outline / Brian Winkenweder

Bibliography / Brian Winkenweder

Index / Brian Winkenweder.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-23586-8

OCLC:

989811434

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004235861 DOI