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The conspiracy of modern art / by Luiz Renato Martins ; edited and introduced by Steve Edwards ; translated by Renato Rezende.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martins, Luiz Renato, author.
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; Volume 137.
- Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volume 137
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Painting, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 294 pages : 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.
- Summary:
- In The Conspiracy of Modern Art the Brazilian critic and art-historian Luiz Renato Martins presents a new account of modern art from David to Abstract Expressionism. The once vibrant debate on these touchstones of modernism has gone stale. Viewed from the Sao Paulo megalopolis the art of Paris and New York - embodying Revolution, Thermidor, Bonapartistm and Bourgeois ‘Triumph' - once more pulsates in tragic key. Equally attentive to form and politics, Martins invites us to look again at familiar pictures. In the process, modern art appears in a new light. These essays, largely unknown to an English-speaking audience, may be the most important contribution to the account of modern painting since the important debates of the 1980s.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Painting, Between Gewalt and Labour: Introduction to The Conspiracy of Modern Art / Steve Edwards
- The Conspiracy of Modern Art
- The Hemicycle: The Image of the Nation-Form
- Marat by David: Photojournalism
- Eighteenth Brumaire, the Fabrication of a Totem: Freud, David and Bonapartism
- Remains of Voluptuousness
- The Returns of Regicide
- Parisian Scenes
- Two Scenes on the Commodity
- Painting as Labour-Form
- Transition from Constructivism to Productivism, According to Tarabukin
- Argan Seminar: Art, Value and Work
- Political Economy of Modern Art I: Entries for Combat
- Political Economy of Modern Art II: Lessons and Modes of Use
- Index of Artworks Cited
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-34608-2
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004346086 DOI
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