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The Routledge Companion to Marxisms in Art History

The Routledge Companion to Marxisms in Art History

Winkenweder, Brian
Tunalı, Tijen

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions

Art Criticism & TheoryArt History

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ISBN10: 0367650096
ISBN13: 9780367650094
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 31 2025
Pages: 534
Language: English

This companion is an essential contribution to the study of historical materialism in general and the social history of art in particular.

Each chapter in the collection focuses on a key figure, concept or historical epoch. Increasingly, scholars adopt an array of Marxist methods intertwined with a host of other theoretical practices, particularly the historiography of key issues regarding hegemony, ideology and identity. Ideological issues of connoisseurship, patronage and analyses of the artwork as a form of labor and leisure are essential to the practice of Marxisms in art history. This collection spotlights a plurality of Marxian theories in which the ideas of such figures as Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord and T.J. Clark are debated and developed through analyses of the socio-historical conditions that impact how art is produced, circulated and received. This ultimately underscores that the historical contextualization of artworks and their markets within a class-based society is crucial for writing socially engaged art history.

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