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In Defense of Art, Part Three: For a Revival of Fine Art

In Defense of Art, Part Three: For a Revival of Fine Art

Painting, drawing and sculpture, although they are always the bearers of ideological elements, and acquire significant aspects of their particular forms through socio-economic influences, are, as material practices, no more reducible to ideology than are childhood, spermatozoa, or, above all, ‘man’.

In Defense of Art, Part Two: For a Humanist Historical Materialism

In Defense of Art, Part Two: For a Humanist Historical Materialism

Part 1 of “In Defense of Art” is here; part 3 is here. I must be clear and explicit about the political position from which I am working. I therefore wish to make absolutely clear in what sense I am working within the Marxist tradition, and what sort of “Marxism”

In Defense of Art, Part One: For a Psychological Reductionist Account of Art

In Defense of Art, Part One: For a Psychological Reductionist Account of Art

Health is often taken for granted, but injury and convalescence force you to appreciate it. In the same way, the wreckage of mid-twentieth century art criticism and theory in grandiose socio-political “interventions” brings into focus a baseline psychological function of art. Peter Fuller saw the sickness in artists and critics