Product Description: In this much-anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Andrew Hemingway overturns orthodox views of Precisionist art and, more generally, of American Modernism. A trio of neglected artists--Stefan Hirsch, Louis Lozowick, and George C...read more

Product Description: This unique book is the first comprehensive introduction to Marxist approaches to art history. Although the aesthetic was a crucial part of Marx and Engels's thought, they left no programmatic statements on the arts. In meeting this gap, succeeding Marxists have inevitably devised a wide variety of approaches to both aesthetics and the writing of art's history...read more

Product Description: This remarkable book is the first to examine in abundant detail the relation between visual artists and the American Communist movement during the twentieth century. Andrew Hemingway charts the rise and decline of the Communist Party’s influence on art in the United States from the Party’s dramatic rise in prestige during the Great Depression to its effective demise in the 1950s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection reasserts the importance of class analysis to a critical art history by studying artistic practices in the key phase of bourgeois history from 1790-1850. A group of specialist scholars examine related developments in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Britain in the early nineteenth century, then the most advanced bourgeois society, saw the emergence of a new type of landscape painting, distinguished by its modern imagery and innovative naturalism. The transition was not straightforward; painters were faced with the problem of representing modern life within the landscape tradition, a tradition centred on the pastoral and the picturesque...read more