Landscape between Ideology and the Aesthetic: Marxist Essays on British Art and Art Theory, 1750–1850At a time of growing interest in relations between Marxism and Romanticism, Andrew Hemingway’s essays on British art and art theory reopen the question of Romantic painting’s ideological functions and, in some cases, its critical purchase. Half the volume exposes the voices of competing class interests in aesthetics and art theory in the tumultuous years of British history between the American Revolution and the 1832 Parliamentary Reform Act. Half offers new perspectives on works by some of the most important landscape painters of the time: John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, John Crome, and John Sell Cotman. Four essays are hitherto unpublished, and the remainder have been updated and in several cases substantially rewritten for this volume. |
Contents
Introduction Theoretical Apologia | 1 |
Aesthetics and Ideology | 39 |
Philosophical Criticism and the Scottish Historical School | 41 |
The Ideological Forms of a Conflict of Interests in the Early Nineteenth Century | 86 |
Chapter 3 Bourgeois Critiques of the Monopoly of Taste | 114 |
Benthamism and the Arts in the 1820s | 150 |
Chapter 5 Cultural Philanthropy and the Invention of the Norwich School | 181 |
Landscape and Ideology | 215 |
Pastoral and CounterPastoral | 246 |
Chapter 8 Artisanal Worldview in the Paintings of John Crome | 297 |
Iconography and the Ideology of the Picturesque | 336 |
An Argument for Iconography | 387 |
Turner Byron and the Politics of Reaction | 420 |
Regarding Art History | 459 |
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