Value art politics : criticism, meaning and interpretation after Postmodernism

This collection of essays draws together questions of value and evaluation in relation to studies of historical and contemporary art and artists, within a broad 'social history of art' conceptual framework.

Core issues covered in the essays include the status of aesthetic and other judgements and their relation to analytic methods in the discipline; the reformulation of feminist aesthetics and cultural politics; the impact of postcolonial theory on the discipline; the status of 'traditional' media now such as paintings and sculptures; new technologies of visual representation; Marxism and culture after Postmodernism; and revisionist histories of formalist criticism.