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... By John R. Martin ... generously conceding that there is much to be learned from him, "cannot accept the hedonistic outlook of Matisse, his repudiation of ideas, his unwillingness to strive for deep pictorial realisation and give an adequate reflection of reality."'a Cubism and abstract ...

Roman Jakobson's well-known strictures on the terminological confusions around realism, written in the early 1920s, apply as much to the visual arts as they do to literature. In both colloquial and scholarly usage it may denote “the illusion of an objective and absolute faithfulness ...

In this collection of classic and newly-published essays, Andrew Hemingway exposes the voices of competing class interest in British aesthetics and art theory in the Romantic period and provides fresh insights into landscape paintings by Constable, Turner and others.

The Symbol, in the meaning of the word used here, constitutes the beginning of art, alike in its essential nature and its historical appearance, and is therefore to be considered only, as it were, as the threshhold of art. It belongs especially to the East and only after all sorts of transitions, metamorphoses, and intermediaries does it carry us over into the genuine actuality of the Ideal as the classical form of art.—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1975)

In this collection of classic and newly-published essays, Andrew Hemingway exposes the voices of competing class interest in British aesthetics and art theory in the Romantic period and provides fresh insights into landscape paintings by Constable, Turner and others.

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In this collection of classic and newly-published essays, Andrew Hemingway exposes the voices of competing class interest in British aesthetics and art theory in the Romantic period and provides fresh insights into landscape paintings by Constable, Turner and others.

In this collection of classic and newly-published essays, Andrew Hemingway exposes the voices of competing class interest in British aesthetics and art theory in the Romantic period and provides fresh insights into landscape paintings by Constable, Turner and others.

In this collection of classic and newly-published essays, Andrew Hemingway exposes the voices of competing class interest in British aesthetics and art theory in the Romantic period and provides fresh insights into landscape paintings by Constable, Turner and others.

In this collection of classic and newly-published essays, Andrew Hemingway exposes the voices of competing class interest in British aesthetics and art theory in the Romantic period and provides fresh insights into landscape paintings by Constable, Turner and others.

In this collection of classic and newly-published essays, Andrew Hemingway exposes the voices of competing class interest in British aesthetics and art theory in the Romantic period and provides fresh insights into landscape paintings by Constable, Turner and others.

This book argues that American Precisionist painting of the 1920s manifested a far more skeptical attitude to capitalist industrialization than is generally recognized; in particular that its formal properties and iconography relate to the body of ideas encompassed by the category of romantic anti-capitalism. After establishing the general basis of this claim through an analysis of American modernist magazines of the 1920s, it develops its argument through an analysis of the works of three less studied Precisionist artists: George Ault, Stefan Hirsch, and Louis Lozowick.

This article has two inter-related aims. Firstly, I want to consider the evolution of the category of the Norwich School of Painting as a discursive construct. In other words, I want to suspend the assumption that there was something there in the past, which possesses some ...

This article situates Strand's statements on art of the 1920s in relation to the romantic-anti-capitalism of the Seven Arts and Stieglitz Circle, arguing that there is a particularly close relationship between his thinking and the ideas of Waldo Frank. Like Frank, Strand became a communist fellow-traveler in the 1930s but maintained his romantic anti-capitalist perspective within the framework of his communist commitment. He remained attached to this combination of beliefs during the Cold War and it informs some of his best-known photo-books such as 'Time in New England'.

... For a clear exposition of the differences between the Marxist and Weber-ian models, see Morton G. Wenger, "Class Closure and the Historical/Structural Limits of the Marx-Weber Convergence," in Norbert Wiley, ed., The Marx-Weber Debate (Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1987). ...

By the early 1930s Edward Hopper was a major figure in the American art scene. As is well known, Hopper made no significant sales of paintings until the exhibition of his watercolors at the Rehn Gallery in 1924, by which time he was forty-four years old. However, his career takeoff in the late 1920s and early 1930s was certainly dramatic, and in 1933 Forbes Watson could describe him as a “collector's favorite.” In 1924 the standard price of Hopper's watercolors was $150, by 1925 it had risen to $200, and in 1928–29, $300–400 was the norm. In 1929 alone he sold at least fourteen drawings. Between 1924 and 1930 he also sold sixteen oils at prices ranging between $400 and $2,500 dollars. In the 1930s he was getting between $1,500 and $3,000 for an oil painting, and from 1934 to 1939 he sold several watercolors at $750 each. If, as Life reported in 1937, his receipts from sales did not usually come near $10,000 per year, he was still doing a lot better than most other artists in...

15. Smith, p. 168. 16. RH [Robert Hunt], 'Portraits of the British Poets', The Examiner, 1820, p. 741. Hunt goes on to praise a series of engraved Portraits of British Poets for the 'soothing' pleasure of contemplating the 'complacent and noble countenances' of poets ...

Through seven decades of this century the USSR stood as the embodiment of communism and thus as the main alternative to capitalism.1 However, while it offered a model which was widely imitated in the developing countries and inspired the forma-tion of Leninist-type political ...

In any league of grim edifices for experiencing works of art, that dismal bunker of culture, the Hayward Gallery, would rank pretty high. The spaces of art galleries, like those of museums, serve ritual functions, and demar-cate the areas in which our aesthetic disposition is ...

Clement Greenberg's fulminations on the commercial 'ersatz culture' of the urban proletariat and petty bourgeoisie in Avant-Garde and Kitsch, that 'debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture', were directed not just against the official art of the totalitarian regimes and ...

Fictional Unities: 'Antifascism' and 'Antifascist Art' in 30s ... Artists against War and Fascism: Papers of the First American Artists' Congress. Introduction by Mat-thew Baigell and Julia Williams, Rutgers University Press 1986. ISBN 0-8135-1125-9. 36 black & white illustrations, xii + 310 pp. ...

One result of the tendency within art history towards politicised-or at least socially grounded-models of explanation over the last thirty years or so has been that historians of modernism have become increasingly interested in the ideological co-ordinates of the phenomenon, which now appear extraordinarily diverse and complex. We can register this through the differences between the kind of texts Herschel B. Chipp and his collaborators thought appropriate to include in their classic anthology Theories of Modern Art (1968), and those that Charles Harrison and Paul Wood selected for their Art in Theory, 1900-1990 (1992). Whereas the texts brought together by Chipp et al. were all by artists, or by critics closely associated with them, excepting four grouped in a separate section on 'Art and Politics', Harrison and Wood give extracts from writings across a range of intellectual fields and genres, including philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics, and more impressionistic kinds of social and cultural criticism. Chipp et al. (like most art historians of their day) wrote as if politics only intruded on art in certain special circumstances; Harrison and Wood assume that the practice of art is always in some sense ideologically invested. From this more sophisticated model of artistic determinations has emerged a clearer picture of the sheer hybridity of cultural radicalism in the period prior to World War I-a phenomenon strikingly demonstrated, for instance, in Gunter Berghaus' fascinating study of Futurist politics.2 The usual distinctions of right and left, conservative and radical, are confounded in the enthusiasms of modernist artists and their critical supporters. Marx, Morris, Bakunin, Bergson, Nietzsche, Sorel, Freud, Nordau, Langbehn, and others rub shoulders in seemingly improbable combinations. Anarchism, syndicalism, and socialism are bedfellows with Theosophy, other forms of mysticism, and strident elitism. Hostility to bourgeois society and aspirations to some kind of utopian future are mixed up with regressive nationalisms, racism, and male chauvinism. Different modernist groupings and individual artists (as well as their critical supporters) forged different combinations of ideas from this range of sources to validate their own practices and to judge those of their contemporaries and rivals, depending partly on national context-with all that that implies about cultural traditions and variations in the social and political conditions of artistic production. Yet for all the agonistic rivalry between them, some principles of commonality were recognised at both a national and international level that distinguished Modern Art from traditional culture everywhere, and which made possible the great international exhibitions of the period. What makes this complex of ideas seem such a stew of incongruous elements is not just their sheer diversity or even contradictoriness, but also their issue in the great events of the twentieth century. For here are ideas that are part of the genealogy of both fascism and communism, and that in some sense justified a whole range of positions in relation to the vast and bloody struggles of both 1914-18 and 1939-45, as well as the smaller but no less brutal episodes that occurred in the interlude between. Yet in those more optimistic and innocent days before the mechanised slaughter of World War I, before the Bolshevik Revolution changed the nature of left politics irrevocably and forced a new awareness of the complexities of building s cialism, and before fascism showed what the aestheticisation of politics meant in human terms, would-be cultural radicals could more easily afford to be intellectually promiscuous and not bother themselves overmuch with the implications of their more outr6 positions. That anarchist ideas were one component within modernist ideologies has long been recognised, and several specialist studies have sought to define their significance for the Neo-lmpressionists and for Picasso, with varying degrees of persuasiveness. In recent years, there have also appeared essays that trace the links between some pre-war American modernists-notably Adolf Wolff and Man Rayand anarchist culture in the United States.3 The argument of Allan Antliff's new book Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde, however, is much larger than the existence of such individual connections: it is rather

Within the history of art, studies in early American modernism have been something of a growth industry in recent years, with a whole sequence of publications appearing on the artists of the Stieglitz circle, New York dada, and the tendencies of the 1920s, among the most ...

... No. 59. Beautifully finished with strong contrast of chiaro-oscuro a fine surface without heaviness, and spangly, spirited execution without fritter or littleness". (XXI8IX. ... 33 Page 5. Fig 6 J. Crome Back of the New Mills 1812 Etching, first state. 23cm x 30cm Norwich Castle Museum. ...

E. H. Gombrich in 1968: Methodological Individualism and the Contradictions of ConservatismThe commonalities Gombrich affirmed between his own positions on science, politics, and art and those of his friend Karl Popper are key to understanding both his work on the history of style and the conservative fulminations on method he published from the early 1950s onwards. United with Popper by their shared experience of exile from fascism, Gombrich failed to register the amateurish character of Popper's political theory and that his aversion to notions of social determination disabled the historian. Popper's skepticism regarding the ontological status of social collectivities and rejection of the concept of totality reinforced Gombrich's suspicions of holistic analysis and led him to fall back on naturalistic descriptions of individuals acting in a social world glued together by such commonsensical categories as "traditions" and "institutions". In this rega...

Killing pictures, Marcia Pointon rewriting Shaftesbury - the "Air Pump" and the limits of commercial humanism, David Solkin curiously marked - tattooing, masculinity and nationality in 18th-century British perceptions of the South Pacific, Harriet Guest the origin of painting and the ends of art - Wright of Derby's "Corinthian Maid", Ann Bermingham Gainsborough's "Diana and Actaeon", Michael Rosenthal Loutherbourg's chemical theatre - "Coalbrookdale by Night", Stephen Daniels J.M.W. Turner at Petworth - agricultural improvement and the politics of landscape, Alun Howkins Benjamin Robert Haydon - the curtius of the Khyber Pass, John Barrell.

2I do not, of course, mean to discount the influence of Mexican muralism on nonlef tists such as George Biddle and James Michael Newell. For Biddle on the Mexican example, see his 'Mural painting in America', Magazine of Art, vol. 27, no. 7, July 1934, pp.3668; An American ...

The Norwich Society of Artists held meetings and ran exhibitions from about 1803 to 1833. Crome and Cotman were leading figures in the Society and their pupils, including Stark and Vincent, became successful in their own right. Although their work was purchased by major British patrons, they were also sustained by the enthusiasm of local collectors for their original portrayal of rural scenes. Cotman was an early master of the new fashion for painting outdoors and produced an outstanding body of watercolors during his periods of residence in Norfolk.

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