1. About Looking
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1980
   A collection of essays covering a wide range of topics from photographs and media, to zoos and forests, grouped around the theme of how people look at things.
2. Anarchism
   A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. Anarchy and Art
   From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   
4. Art and Aesthetics on the Left
   An interview with Andrew Hemingway
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Andrew Hemingway is an art historian and Professor Emeritus at University College London. His books include Artists on the Left. American Artists and the Communist Movement 1926-1956 (Yale University Press, 2002) and The Mysticism of Money: Precisionist Painting and Machine Age America (Periscope Publishing, 2013).
5. Art and Labour
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1884
   Says Morris: "By art, I do not mean only pictures and sculpture, nor only these and architecture, that is beautiful building properly ornamented; these are only a portion of art, which comprises, as I understand the word a great deal more; beauty produced by the labour of man both mental and bodily, the expression of the interest man takes in the life of man upon the earth with all its surroundings, in other words the human pleasure of life is what I mean by art."
   
6. Art and Pornography
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1969
   
7. Art and Sexual Politics
   Why Have There No Great Women Artists?
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1973
   Examines cultural and ideological biases about female artists
8. Art and Socialism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1884
   Morris sees work as a necessity of human life, not merely as a means of obtaining a livelihood. Morris insists that only socialism can restore work to its proper, central position.
   
9. Art, Politics, and the Imagination
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1996
   The work of our best artists throws into sharp relief what is painfully missing from most activists' work: a fusion of living experience with political insight.
10. Art, Religion and Hatred
    Religious Intolerance in Russia and its Effects on Art
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Report on religious intolerance in Russia and its effects on artists and their freedom of expression.
11. Art Under Plutocracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1883   Published: 1884
    Morris asks "What kind of an account shall we be able to give to those who come after us of our dealings with the earth, which our forefathers handed down to us still beautiful, in spite of all the thousands of years of strife and carelessness and selfishness?"
    
12. Art, Wealth, and Riches
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1883
    A lecture by William Morris, delivered in Manchester in 1883. Morris poses the question "Is art to be limited to a narrow class who only care for it in a very languid way, or is it to be the solace and pleasure of the whole people?"
    
13. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
14. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
15. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
16. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
17. Crayons of Askalan
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    In 1975, at the age of fifteen, Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adaw is sentenced and confined in the high security prison of Askalan, Israel for fifteen years. With the help of his fellow prisoners and their families, he manages to stay alive by smuggling in colour crayons and smuggling out his allegorical artwork done on pillowcases, so it finds its way to the outside world.
18. Critical Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1972
    Essays by the founder of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.
19. Culture of Complaint
    The Fraying of America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
20. Decline of the English Murder
    And Other Essays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1950   Published: 1981
    A collection of essays by George Orwell.
21. Docs Populi
    Documents for the public
    Resource Type: Website
    Dedicated to documenting and publishing oppositional artwork of the late 20th century.
    
22. Eye in the Sky
    Surveillance and the Art of Arnold Mesches
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Round about the turn of this century Arnold Mesches, who is neither monk nor medievalist nor Christian, began illuminating manuscripts from the world that long since had killed God but appropriated or accommodated to a version of His all-seeing eye. The manuscripts in question: Mesches’ FBI file, 1945 to 1972.
23. The Female Body in Western Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    The female body has occupied a central place in the Western imagination, inspiriing both attraction and fear, seen as both beautiful and unclean, alluring and dangerous, a source of pleasure and evil. In this book, twenty-three scholars and critics explore these representations and their implications for contemporary art and culture.
24. Film as a Subversive Art
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
25. Inocente
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    Inocente is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children.
26. John Reed Clubs and Proletarian Art - Part I
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The writings of Marx and Engels provide no support for the idea, frequently associated with Marxism, that the movement of the working class to emancipate itself from capitalism and build a classless society requires a proletarian or revolutionary art as an aid to its struggles.
27. Make Art! Change the World! Starve!
    The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice - Part I
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    
28. Morris, William - Internet Archive - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    
29. Parallelogramme
    Periodical profile published 1986
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
30. Radical Perspectives in the Arts
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
31. Reimaging America
    The Arts of Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    More than 40 artist-contributors using video as their medium describe and analize how they create art as part or their struggle to alter mass culture and to reconnect with the communities which inspire their work.
32. Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    
33. Unveiled
    Art and Censorship in Iran
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and individual expression.
34. The Uses of Literacy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1957
    In this partly autobiographical book Hoggart observes the loss of an authentic popular culture and denounces the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.
35. Walter Benjamin
    Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Eagleton's goal here is to to contemplate Benjamin's approach to language, history, and art and to chart a dynamic new course for contemporary socialist criticism.
36. Ways of Seeing
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    Seeing establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it.
37. The William Morris Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    A subarchive of the Marxists Internet Archive, featuring the works of the English socialist, writer, and artist William Morris.
    

Experts on Arte in the Sources Directory

1. AMEA - World Museum of Erotic Art
2. Bermuda National Gallery
3. The British Museum
4. British Museum of Erotic Art
5. Centre Pompidou
6. J. Paul Getty Museum
7. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
8. The Hermitage
9. ibiblio.org
10. Kunsthistorisches Museum
11. Metropolitan Museum of Art
12. MoMA Museum of Modern Art
13. Museo Nacional del Prado
14. Museum of Sex
15. The Tate Gallery
16. Tokyo National Museum
17. The Victoria and Albert Museum