The Conspiracy of Modern Art

ISBN-13: 9789004280045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 316 str.

Luiz Renato Martins; Steve Edwards

Opis

In The Conspiracy of Modern Art the Brazilian critic and art-historian Luiz Renato Martins draws on Marxist theory to invite us to see familiar pictures anew.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Credits

Painting, Between Gewalt and Labour: introduction to The Conspiracy of Modern Art by Steve Edwards

1 The Conspiracy of Modern Art
2 The Hemicycle: The Image of the Nation Form
3 Marat by David: Photojournalism
4 18th Brumaire, the Fabrication of a Totem: Freud, David and Bonapartism
5 Remains of Voluptuousness
6 The Returns of Regicide
7 Parisian Scenes
8 Two Scenes on the Commodity
9 Painting as Labour-Form
10 Transition from Constructivism to Productivism, According to Tarabukin
11 Argan Seminar: Art, Value and Work
12 Political Economy of Modern Art I: Entries for Combat
13: Political Economy of Modern Art II: Lessons and Modes of Use

Index of Artworks Cited
Bibliography

O autorze

Luiz Renato Martins teaches art history and aesthetics at the Visual Arts Department of the School of Arts and Communications of the University of São Paulo. He has taught in several universities in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Spain, France and the USA, and has published many books and articles on issues such as modern art, fi lm and the contemporary global crisis. Steve Edwards is Professor in the Department of Art History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of several books on art and photography; an editor of the Oxford Art Journal and of the Historical Materialism Book Series.