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Art Has No History! - The Making and Unmaking of Modern Art (Paperback)
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Art Has No History! - The Making and Unmaking of Modern Art (Paperback)
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In this stimulating collection of essays, John Roberts draws
together a wide range of work on some of the most important artists
of the post-war period. Written by leading art historians and
artist-writers, the essays take a sharply critical look at the
construction of modern art history. The artists discussed include
Francis Picabia, Robert Smithson, Ad Reinhardt, Andy Warhol,
Gerhard Richter, Mary Kelly, Cindy Sherman, Victor Burgin and
Laurie Anderson. The extensive influence of post-structuralism on
all schools of art history has brought about a widespread
derogation of questions around intentionality and social agency.
Free-ranging textual interpretation has come to outweigh causal
analysis. Art Has No History! reverses this bias. Putting the
artist back into art history, the essays reinstate the claims for
historical materialism as a theory of the conflictual socialization
of individuals. Acknowledging the dissemblances involved in the
representations of artistic invention, the book challenges the
self-image of traditional art history and the radical New Art
History alike. In his introduction, John Roberts gives a
fascinating account of the vicissitudes of Marxist writing on art,
from Max Raphael and Arnold Hauser to T.J. Clark and Griselda
Pollock. Placing the debates on intention and agency in their wider
political context, he refers to what he calls "the continuing
influence of historical materialism on the best Anglophone art
writing today." Art Has No History! is a lively and iconoclastic
contribution to that tradition.
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