As Radical as Reality Itself: Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st Century (Paperback)

Contents: Matthew Beaumont: Preface ? John Roberts: Marxism and Art Theory: A Short Conspectus ? Andrew Hemingway: Marxist Art History Now ? Esther Leslie: Marxism Against Cultural Studies ? Satish Padiyar: Shadow of Agency: Derrida, Marx, David ? Mary K. Coffey: Representation, Institutionalization, and the State: Marxist and Post-Structural Approaches to Mexican Muralism and the Popular ? Paul Jaskot: Marxism and the Built Environment in the Twenty-First Century: Millennium Park in Chicago and the Question of Private and Public Space ? Christina Kiaer: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism as a Model of Aesthetic Value ? Jutta Held: Work as an Artistic Motif: Theoretical and Pictorial Models from the DDR: An Historical Sketch ? Wojciech Tomasik: I Demolish Moscow! Acts of Symbolic Destruction in the Post-Communist Period ? Anselm Jappe: Were the Situationists the Last Avant-Garde? ? Peter Smith: Never Work! The Situationists and the Politics of Negation ? Frances Stracey: Consuming the Spectacle: The Watts Revolt and a New Proletariat ? David Cunningham: Architecture in the Age of Global Modernity: Tafuri, Jameson and Enclave Theory ? Barry King: Modularity and the Aesthetics of Self-Commodification ? Drew Milne: Processual Performance: Critical Notes on Adorno’s Autonomous Artwork ? Ben Watson: The Theory of Value in Marx and Adorno ? Rasheed Araeen: Globalization, Cultural Difference, and the Alternative to the Crisis of Art Today ? Geoff Cox: Sub Disorder(). After ‘The Author as Producer’ ? Gregory Sholette: Dark Matter, Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere.