This collection of some 32 articles and essays by Adrian Rifkin were written over a period of forty years. It contains innovative and influential studies of the archives of art, urbanism, music and popular life in France and Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Arranged around a number of studies of the representation of the Paris Commune, the book also contains chapters on Edith Piaf's role in French culture, histories of art education, opera and queer life in the city as well as analytical accounts of the commodity and cultural theory in Adorno and Benjamin.
An extended introduction by Steve Edwards works over the questions of uneven time in Marxist cultural theory and the disciplinary formations that underpin many of Rifkin's essays.
| ISBN: | 9789004231887 |
| Publication date: | 8th December 2016 |
| Author: | Adrian Rifkin |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 556 pages |
| Series: | Historical Materialism Book Series |
| Genres: |
History of art History of ideas Far-left political ideologies and movements Social and cultural history Philosophy: aesthetics |
This collection of some 32 articles and essays by Adrian Rifkin were written over a period of forty years. It contains innovative and influential studies of the archives of art, urbanism, music and popular life in France and Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Communards and Other Cultural Histories features in the following genres: History of art, History of ideas, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Social and cultural history, Philosophy: aesthetics
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Communards and Other Cultural Histories was written by Adrian Rifkin and published by Brill
Communards and Other Cultural Histories has 556 pages
Yes it is part of Historical Materialism Book Series series