PhD Candidate Julian Adoff published a chapter in The Routledge Companion to Marxisms in Art History
The title of his article is "Ugly and Out of Sight: Reconsidering the Irrational in Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Allegory"
PhD Candidate Julian Adoff contributed the chapter "Ugly and Out of Sight: Reconsidering the Irrational in Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Allegory" to The Routledge Companion to Marxisms in Art History, edited by Tijen Tunalı and Brian Winkenweder. The book is available on March 31. Download Julian's article here.
Julian writes on his awesome blog: "This is a project that I have been working on for the past few years, and I am so excited for the book to come out in [March]. The chapter looks at Walter Benjamin’s theory of allegory and how his melding of Marxism and Jewish Mysticism defies the rational. I use the Hungarian/Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil to explore the hold that the “rational” has on art further. "
Congratulations Julian!