Andrew Frank Hemingway is

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. He is a specialist in British

landscape painting Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a cohe ...

of the nineteenth century, which he interprets through a

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lens, and the historiography of Marxist art history.

Early life and education

Andrew Hemingway received his advanced education at the universities of

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and

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. He received his PhD from

for a thesis which he began in 1977 and which was accepted in 1989 titled ''Discourses of art and social interests: The representation of landscape in Britain c.1800-1830'' which was supervised by William Vaughan.

Career

Hemingway's early academic career was at Ealing College of Higher Education. He taught at University College London from 1987 to 2010, becoming a professor there in 2003.Teach-in with Gregory Sholette & Andrew Hemingway.
Arts & Labor, 4 December 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2016. He is now an emeritus professor at the college.Emeritus Professors.
University College London, History of Art. Retrieved 11 March 2016. His work relates to nineteenth century landscape painting,Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History: Andrew Hemingway.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 11 March 2016. which he interprets through a Marxist lens, and the

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of Marxism as it relates to art history about which he edited a collection of essays that was published by Pluto Press in 2006. Hemingway's first published book (1979) was on the

Norwich School of painters The Norwich school of painters was the first provincial art movement established in Britain, active in the early 19th century. Artists of the school were inspired by the natural environment of the Norfolk landscape and owed some influence to the w ...

in the early decades of the nineteenth century which was followed by his comprehensive treatment of early nineteenth century British landscape painting ''Landscape imagery and urban culture in early nineteenth-century Britain'' (based on his PhD thesis) that was published by Cambridge University Press in 1992. Since then, Hemingway has written or edited three books on Marxism and art. His recent work has concentrated on American art.

Selected publications

*''The Norwich School of Painters 1803-1833''. Phaidon, Oxford, 1979. *''Landscape imagery and urban culture in early nineteenth-century Britain''.

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, Cambridge, 1992. *''Artists on the left: American artists and the communist movement, 1926–1956''.

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, New Haven, 2002. *''Marxism and the history of art: From William Morris to the New Left''.

Pluto Press Pluto Press is a British independent book publisher based in London, founded in 1969. Pluto Press states that it publishes "radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books", and is anti-capitalist and internationalist. It belongs to The Internat ...

, London, 2006. (Editor) *''As radical as reality itself: Essays on Marxism and art for the 21st century''. 2007. (Joint editor) *''The mysticism of money: Precisionist painting and machine age America''. Periscope, Pittsburgh, 2009. *''Transatlantic romanticism: British and American art and literature, 1790–1860''. 2015. (Edited with Alan Wallach)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hemingway, Andrew Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Hull Alumni of the University of East Anglia Alumni of University College London Academics of University College London British art historians