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Marxism and art history after the fall of communism.

From: Art Journal  |  Date: 6/22/1996  |  Author: Hemingway, Andrew

Marxist theories applied to art history are being reevaluated in the light of emerging concerns that cannot be confined to discussions of class and class conflict. Marxism involves the analysis of class segregation and struggle as these factors influenced art production. However, feminism has also called for a reexamination of stratification in terms of gender, while racial studies have raised the question of diversity within the working class as factors that must be accommodated in a social ...

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