The Present Prospects of Social Art History

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction: The Present Prospects of Social Art History
	Notes
Chapter 1: Social Art History in Retrospect
	Three Tendencies in the Social History of Art
	Positivist
	Marxist
	Subjective
	Notes
Chapter 2: Marat’s Two Bodies
	Marat’s Sacred Body
	The Shameful Death
	Inheritance
	Notes
Chapter 3: The Anti-Heroism of Modern Life, or the Social History of Art in Standard Time
	Notes
Chapter 4: T. J. Clark, Peasant Materialism, and the End of Social Art History
	Notes
Chapter 5: Daumier and Method
	Notes
Chapter 6: The Age of Social Art History: Berger, Clark, Fried
	Notes
Chapter 7: A Secret History of Martin Wong
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
Chapter 8: Vernacular Modernism All Over: the Deep South
	Absorption and Theatricality
	Farewell to an Idea
	The Legacy of Jackson Pollock
Chapter 9: Note to Self: On the Blurring of Art and Life
	Writing the Self
	The Blurring of Art and Life
	Lee Lozano’s Art-Life Experiment
	The Politics of Experience
	Notes
Chapter 10: The Role of Form in the Social History of Art
	Formalism
	A Formalist Social History of Art
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
Chapter 11: Abject Art History
	Form and Grace
	Photography as Model
	Notes
Contributors
Index