nonsite issue #35
The Nineteenth Century
(Part Three)

This is the third in a series of issues featuring new scholarship on nineteenth- and eighteenth-century art.

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

Daguerre, Christian Prometheus
by Éric Michaud
Translated by Bridget Alsdorf

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

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

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