Keywords for Marxist Art History Today

edited by Larne Abse Gogarty and Andrew Hemingway

Book cover: Keywords for Marxist Art History Today

Extent: 214 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Art & Art History, Social Sciences 

Series: Kunst und Politik

Series volume number: 21

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(January 2020)

ISBN: 9783847111146

6.18 x 9.45 inches

Price: $25.00

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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 inquiry today. Although the “historical semantics” of these words play some role in the essays, the scholars especially are interested in the present state of Marxist art history.


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 inquiry today. Starting point of the researches was the knowledge that while certain keywords have been crucial to recent developments in Marxist art history and cultural theory more broadly, others seem to have slipped out of view. The scholars are not so much interested in the “historical semantics” of words although that plays some role in the essays as in the present state of Marxist art history.

  • Edited by Larne Abse Gogarty
  • Edited by Andrew Hemingway