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Larne Abse Gogarty
Usable Pasts zeros in on two periods in the United States that saw the state increase its financial support for socially engaged works of culture. In the 1990s the political…
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Usable Pasts unpicks the mythic and material afterlives of the New Deal in American cultural politics in order to write a new history of social practice art in the United…
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On the aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy.
Written in the wake of the far-right populist turn in Europe, the US, and beyond, Art and the Antinomies…
A splendid clothbound volume of the erotic, complex paintings and drawings of the legendary Chicago Imagist
American artist Christina Ramberg’s (1946-95) formally elegant, erotically sinister paintings make up one of…
Mel Dodd,Larne Abse Gogarty,Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt,Robert Kudielka
Constructing the World traces the global convergence of artistic vocabularies–principally realism and the New Objectivity–between 1919 and 1939, also showing how the economic crisis of 1929 affected art. Works by…