The Nineteenth Century (Part Three)

Publication Year
2021

Type

Journal
Abstract
William Morris: The Poetics of Indigo Discharge Printing
by Caroline Arscott

Daguerre, Christian Prometheus
by Éric Michaud

Ruskin’s Broken Middle
by Jeremy Melius

Chardin’s Pastels
by Eik Kahng

This issue also includes a feature on Michael Fried and the possibility of a Marxist art criticism. We reprint Fried’s original 1962 speculation along with four contemporary responses:

Marxism and Criticism
by Michael Fried

Some Comments on the Claims Made For and Against Painting
by Jeff Wall

Art as Seeing Through Neoliberal De-reification
by Irmgard Emmelhainz

John Berger, Michael Fried and Contemporary Art
by Blake Stimson

Lukács/Fried
by Nicholas Brown

In The Tank: 
Responses to Rita Felski's "Hooked: Art and Attachment" (2020) by Anna Kornbluh, Robert S. Lehman, Michael Gallope, and Jess Keiser