TY - JOUR

T1 - Lu Märten

T2 - An Introduction to Four Texts

AU - Nachtigall, Jenny

AU - Stakemeier, Kerstin

PY - 2021/12/20

Y1 - 2021/12/20

N2 - This article presents an introduction to four texts that the German feminist-materialist art historian Lu Märten (1879–1970) published between 1903 and 1928. It outlines some of the major concepts of and contexts for this unduly neglected thinker. Her writings covered a wide terrain that spanned studies on the labor conditions of female artists, polemics against “proletarian art,” and a monist, rather than dialectical, view on film, art, and what she called the “full life-work of a human.” At the core of her multiple endeavors was the demand for remaking the history of art as a history of form that is more capacious than art's institutionalized Western field. Situating Märten's work in historical debates (e.g., on Marxist aesthetics in the 1930s), the introduction also points to the new legibility that her nonaligned materialism gains with the material turn in the humanities.

AB - This article presents an introduction to four texts that the German feminist-materialist art historian Lu Märten (1879–1970) published between 1903 and 1928. It outlines some of the major concepts of and contexts for this unduly neglected thinker. Her writings covered a wide terrain that spanned studies on the labor conditions of female artists, polemics against “proletarian art,” and a monist, rather than dialectical, view on film, art, and what she called the “full life-work of a human.” At the core of her multiple endeavors was the demand for remaking the history of art as a history of form that is more capacious than art's institutionalized Western field. Situating Märten's work in historical debates (e.g., on Marxist aesthetics in the 1930s), the introduction also points to the new legibility that her nonaligned materialism gains with the material turn in the humanities.

KW - Science of art

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85122130298&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1162/octo_a_00436

DO - 10.1162/octo_a_00436

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85122130298

SP - 3

EP - 14

JO - October

JF - October

SN - 0162-2870

IS - 178

ER -