Adrian Rifkin

Communards and Other Cultural Histories

Essays by Adrian Rifkin
Herausgeber: Edwards, Steve

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Produktbeschreibung

A wide-ranging collection of essays from Adrian Rifkin, covering cultural production, urbanism, and social conflict from a critical Marxist perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 548
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781608468249
• ISBN-10: 1608468240
• Artikelnr.: 47745585

Autorenporträt

Adrian Rifkin was Professor of Fine Art at the University of Leeds, then Professor of Visual Culture at Middlesex University and Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths London, and is currently visiting Professor in Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements ... ix
List of Figures ... xii
Introduction: Adrian Rifkin, or from Art History in Ruins to a Lost Object
... 1
Steve Edwards
Re-Reading by Torchlight 40
Adrian Rifkin
Part 1: New Art Histories
1.1 Art's Histories (1986) ... 51
1.2 Can Gramsci Save Art History? Traditional Art History - Some Aspects Of
The Problem (1981) ... 57
1.3 Marx' Clarkism (1985) ... 69
1.4 Carmenology (1988) ... 84
1.5 History, Time and the Morphology of Critical Language, or Publicola's
Choice (1994) ... 101
1.6 Bi-Centennial Literature on Art and the French Revolution (1990) ...
115
1.7 The Words of Art, the Artist's Status: Technique and Affectivity in
France (1789-98) (1991) ... 124
1.8 From Structure to Enigma and Back, Perhaps (2005) ... 148
Part 2: Society, Image, Social Difference: Between the Paris Commune, the
Salon and the People
2.1 Cultural Movement and the Paris Commune (1979) ... 169
2.2 The Sex of French Politics (1983) ... 196
2.3 No Particular Thing to Mean (1983) ... 206
2.4 Well Formed Phrases: Some Limits of Meaning in Political Print at the
End of the Second Empire (1986) ... 229
2.5 Ingres and the Academic Dictionary: An Essay on Ideology and
Stupefaction in the Social Formation of the 'Artist' (1983) ... 250
2.6 Success Disavowed: The Schools of Design in Mid-Nineteenth-Century
Britain. (An Allegory) (1988) ... 272
2.7 Murals of the Buvette de la Commune - A Pictorial Dossier ... 297
Part 3: Paris and More on the People
3.1 Musical Moments (1987) ... 311
3.2 Parvenu or Palimpsest: Some Tracings of the Jew in Modern France (1995)
... 349
3.3 Il y a des mots qu'on souhaiterait ne plus lire (2005) ... 364
3.4 Gay Paris, Trace and Ruin (2002) ... 376
3.5 Americans Go Home: Which is More American, Paris-Texas or Paris-France?
(2004) ... 388
Part 4: Alternatives to the Grander Schemas, or Resistance to the Critique
of Grand Narrative as a Form of Grand Narrative
4.1 Down on the Upbeat: Adorno, Benjamin and the Jazz Question (1989) ...
405
4.2 Total Ellipsis: Zola, Benjamin and the Dialectics of Kitsch (1996) ...
416
4.3 The Long Run of Modernity, or an Essay in Post-Dating (1992) ... 434
4.4 Benjamin's Paris, Freud's Rome: Whose London? (1999) ... 451
4.5 Bayreuth, World City? Or: The Provincial Village as Global Denkmal
(2011) ... 467
Part 5: Postscripts: Different Beginnings
5.1 The Paris Commune of 1871 and Political Print (1979) ... 483
5.2 For an Artist ... (2008) ... 494
5.3 No Thing to Regret (2001) ... 497
Bibliography of Writings by Adrian Rifkin (to 2012) ... 501
Bibliography ... 508
Index ... 537