Not horizontal enough horizontal art history with Marxist restrictions
This chapter discusses the horizontal art history from Marxist and post-Marxist perspectives, stressing the lack of the notion of a class and class analysis. It elaborates on both theoretical notion of horizontal art history and its consequences—alter-globalist art history, which is defined in Piotr...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Horizontal art history and beyond / edited by Agata Jakubowska and Magdalena Radomska |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This chapter discusses the horizontal art history from Marxist and post-Marxist perspectives, stressing the lack of the notion of a class and class analysis. It elaborates on both theoretical notion of horizontal art history and its consequences—alter-globalist art history, which is defined in Piotrowski’s last book as a pro-utopian and constructive approach. Therefore this chapter argues that horizontal art history is not horizontal enough, as it ignores both the class structure behind the superstructural construct of art-historical narrative and the primacy of the base over superstructural analysis. It also reflects upon the fact that horizontal art history offers a tool enabling a cessation of formal analysis, stressing Piotrowski’s attachment to what can be called a primacy of superstructure and emphasising the necessity of substituting the well-established formal analysis with a material one, which would disclose the class structure behind art-historical narrative and material conditioning of artworks. Horizontal art history is, therefore, perceived as a trigger that when equipped with Marxist restrictions enables the aforementioned substitution that leads to the application of a labour theory of value to works of art, thus establishing a significant alternative for artistic value imposed by the market as a result of the dominance of formal analysis. |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-03-203067-8 |