The mood of systemic crisis that has marked the early 21st century has been accompanied by an upsurge in Marxist thought in a whole range of domains and extends to art history. In this volume 19 scholars from different generations, different national contexts and with different relationships to Marxism reflect on the status of 18 "keywords" with special pertinence to Marxist art-historical inqu…
Der Band ist Jutta Held (1933–2007) und Norbert Schneider (1945–2019), der Gründerin und dem langjährigen Herausgeber von »Kunst und Politik«, gewidmet. Beide gehörten zur Generation der kritischen Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker, die sich seit den 1970er Jahren für eine neue Kunstgeschichte einsetzten, die die gesellschaftlichen Aspekte der Kunst ins Zentrum rückte. Der Ban…
This book is the first comprehensive introduction to Marxist approaches to art history. Although the aesthetic was a crucial part of Marx and Engels's thought, they left no full statement on the arts. Although there is an abundant scholarship on Marxist approaches to literature, the historiography of the visual arts has been largely neglected. This book encompasses a range of influential thinke…