Contents: Introduction- David Craven, Democratic Socialism and Art History. 1. Mondrian De-Mythologised: Towards a Newer Virgil. 2. Charles Biederman and Art Theory. 3. Marcel Duchamp and the Perceptual Dimension of Conceptual Art. 4. Robert Smithson's 'Liquidating Intellect'. 5. Richard Serra and the Phenomenology of Perception. 6. Hans Haacke and the Aesthetics of Dependency Theory. 7. Norman Lewis as Political Activist and Post-Colonial Artist. 8. René Magritte and the Spectre of Commodity Fetishism. 9. Ruskin vs. Whistler: The Case Against Capitalist Art. 10. The Critique-Poésie of Thomas Hess. 11. John Berger as Art Critic. 12. Meyer Schapiro, Karl Korsch, and the Emergence of Critical Theory. 13. Clement Greenberg and the 'Triumph' of Western Art. 14. Aesthetics as Ethics in the Writings of Robert Motherwell and Meyer Schapiro. 15. Prerequisites for a New Criticism. 16. Herbert Marcuse on Aesthetics. 17. Corporate Capitalism and South Africa. 18. Popular Culture versus Mass Culture. 19. Hegemonic Art History. 20. Art History and the Challenge of Post-Colonial Modernism. 21. C.L.R. James as a Critical Theorist of Modernist Art. 22. Present Indicative Politics and Future Perfect Positions: Barack Obama and Third Text. 23. Formative Art and Social Transformation: The Nicaraguan Revolution on Its Tenth Anniversary (1979-1989). 24. Cuban Art and the Democratization of Culture . 25. The Latin American Origins of Alternative Modernism. 26. Post-Colonial Modernism in the Work of Diego Rivera and José Carlos Mariátegui. 27. Realism Revisited and Re-theorised in 'Pan-American' Terms. 28. Abstract Expressionism, Automatism, and the Age of Automation. 29. Abstract Expressionism & Third World Art: A Post-Colonial Approach to 'American' Art. 30. New Documents: The Unpublished F.B.I. Files on Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb. 31. A Legacy for the Left: Abstract Expressionism as Anti-Imperialist Art. 32. Different Conceptions of Art: An Outline. (^Available September 2017^)

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