Biography of warren carter art

His principal area of research is twentieth century American art, with a specific focus upon the medium of mural painting, and increasingly upon those done in Mexico after the revolution of 1910-20.

This has resulted in publications in the Oxford Art Journal and more recently Third Text. He also has a special methodological interest in the social history of art, and the work of the radical art historian Meyer Schapiro, subjects on which he has published in the anthology that he co-edited, Renew Marxist Art History.

He has been a regular contributor of papers to the Association of Art Historians’ Conference as well as that organised annually by the journal Historical Materialism, and was one of the original conveners – and still is – of the long-running seminar series ‘Marxism in Culture’ that takes place at the Institute of Historical Studies on a regular basis.

He has also given papers at the College Art Association Conference in Chicago; the Internationa