Socialist Historians Bibliography
Andrew Hemingway
Areas of interest include: History of Art. The US Labour Movement and Culture. Communist Parties, the Comintern and Culture
Books
1992 Landscape Imagery and Urban Culture in Britain 1800-1830, (Cambridge University Press)
1998 Art in Bourgeois Society 1790-1850, a collection of 16 essays by an international group of scholars, edited with William Vaughan, (Cambridge University Press). Contains my 1996 Art Journal essay, a co-authored introduction, and section introductions.
Parts of books
1982 'Cotman's Publication Projects', in Arts Council exhibition catalogue, John Sell Cotman 1782-1842, pp.23-5.
1994 'Critical Realism in the History of American Art', in Deborah Madsen (ed.), Visions of America, (Leicester University Press)
1995 'Art Exhibitions as Leisure Class Rituals in Early Nineteenth-Century London', in Brian Allen (ed.), Towards a Modern Art World in Britain, c.1715-c.1880, Studies in British Art, vol.1, (Yale University Press)
1997 'Constituents of Romantic Genius: John Sell Cotman's Greta Drawings', in Michael Rosenthal, Christiana Payne & Scott Willcox (ed.), Prospects for the Nation: Recent Essays in British Landscape, 1750-1880, Studies in British Art, vol.4, (Yale University Press)
1999 'Watercolour Painting', for Iain McCalman (ed.),An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832, (Oxford University Press)'The Debate on Art and the State in Postwar America', in Francis Ames-Lewis & Piotr Paszkiewicz (Ed),Art and Politics: Proceeding of the Third Anglo-Polish Art Historians Conference (Institut Sztuki, PAN, Warsaw)
2000 '"Norwich School": Myth and Reality', in David Blayney Brown, Andrew Hemingway, & Anne Lyles, Romantic Landscape: The Norwich School of Painters, (Tate Gallery Publishing), pp.9-23.
Articles and reviews
1981 review of John Barrell, "The Dark Side of the Landscape", in Burlington Magazine, vol.CXXIII, no.938, May, p.316.
1984 'Meaning in Cotman's Norfolk Subjects', Art History, vol.7, no.1, March, pp.57-77.
'Subject-Matter in the Work of John Crome', Landscape Research, winter, pp.30-40.
1986 review of Sue Welsh Reid & Barbara Stern Shapiro, Degas: The Painter as Print-Maker, Oxford Art Journal, vol.8, no.2, pp.70-73.
'Academic Theory versus Association Aesthetics: The Ideological Forms of a Conflict of Interests in the Early Nineteenth Century', Ideas and Production, Issue 5, pp.18-42.
1987 'The Political Theory of Painting without the Politics', (review of John Barrell, The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt), Art History, vol.10, no.3, September 1987, pp.381-95.
1988 'Cultural Philanthropy and the Invention of the Norwich School', Oxford Art Journal, vol.11, no.2, pp.17-39.
1989 'The Sociology of Taste in the Scottish Enlightenment', Oxford Art Journal, vol.12, no.2, pp.3-35.
1991 'Fictional Unities: "Antifascism" and "Antifascist Art" in 30s America', (review of Cécile Whiting, Antifascism in American Art and other books), Oxford Art Journal, vol.14, no.1, pp.107-17.
1992 "To personalise the rainpipe": The Critical Mythology of Edward Hopper', Prospects, pp.379-404.
1993 review of John Barrell (ed.), Painting and the Politics of Culture: New Essays on British Art 1700-1850, in Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol.27, no.1, Fall 1993, pp.147-50.
'Genius, Gender, and Progress: Benthamism and the Arts in the 1820s', Art History, vol.16, no.4, December, pp.619-46.
1994 'Meyer Schapiro and Marxism in the 1930s', in Oxford Art Journal, vol.17, no.1, pp.13-29. (Translated into Chinese, in World of Art, no.4, 1998, pp.68-74; no.1, 1999, pp.61-6.)
'The Consolations of Imagery' (review of Stephen Daniells, Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in Britain and the United States), in Oxford Art Journal, vol.17, no.2, pp.112-15.
1996 'Philip Reisman's Proletarian Realism', in Philip Reisman's Etchings: Printmaking and Politics in New York 1926-1933, College Art Collections, University College London, pp.5-22.
'The Two Paths' (review of Michael Leja, Reframing Abstract Expressionism and Terry Smith, Making the Modern), Oxford Art Journal, vol.19, no.1, pp.113-21.
'Marxism and Art History after the Fall of Communism', Art Journal, vol.55, no.2, Summer, pp.20-27.
1997 'Artists on the Left and their Critics',Intellectual History Newsletter, vol.19, pp.6-14. Contribution to a symposium on Michael Denning's The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture.
1998 review of Louis Lozowick, Survivor from a Dead Age: The Memoirs of Louis Lozowick (ed. Virginia H. Marquardt), inPrint Quarterly, vol.XV, no.1, pp.103-6.
1999 'Middlebrow: For and Against' (review of Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture and Jonathan Harris, Federal Art and National Culture), Oxford Art Journal, vol.22, no.1, Spring 1999, pp.166-76
2000 with Paul Jaskot: review of T.J. Clark, Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism, Kunst und Politik: Jahrbuch der Guernica Gesellschaft, vol. 2, pp.229-37.
With Paul Jaskot: review of T.J. Clark, Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism; and O.K. Werckmeister, Icons of the Left: Benjamin and Eisenstein, Picasso and Kafka after the Fall of Communism, in Historical Materialism, 7, Winter 2000, pp.257-80
2001 'What Does a Materialist Art History Do? Andrew Hemingway's Response', in Handwerker Gallery Newsletter, vol.3, no.2, Fall 2001. (Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca)
Forthcoming
'Between Zhdanovism and 57th Street: Artists and the CPUSA, 1945-56', in Alejandro Anreus, Jonathan Weinberg & Diana Linden (ed.), Social Realism in the Western Hemisphere: A Critical Examination of Art Between the Wars, (Princeton University Press), 2002
'[A]n unbroken lugubrious quality": Mexican Muralism and the Style of the Democratic Front in the Midwest', in Crónicas: El muralismo, producto de la revolución mexicana, en América,Seminario de investigación, 2002?
'Mexican Muralism in the American Communist Press', in Crónicas: El muralismo, producto de la revolución mexicana, en América.,Seminario de investigación, 2002?
Artists on the Left: Artists and the American Communist Movement, 1926-56, (Yale University Press, 2002)
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