Narrated and produced by Rochelle Anne Swanson.With additional image descriptions read by Natasha Raskin Sharp, highly-prized presenter of Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip and Flog It!, and a much-loved and respected presenter of late-night music shows for BBC Radio Scotland.Editorial notes read by Adele Allen.To keep up to date with Manifesto Press, visit our socials @manifestopress.coopFollowing our publication of Volume One – Art in the Nineteenth Century...

Narrated and produced by Rochelle Anne Swanson.With additional image descriptions read by Natasha Raskin Sharp, highly-prized presenter of Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip and Flog It!, and a much-loved and respected presenter of late-night music shows for BBC Radio Scotland.Editor’s notes and citations read by Adele Allen.Find us @manifestopresscoopHess wrote in the 1960s and used ‘man’ throughout this volume to mean ‘people’, you and me. But today’s use of...

Purchase and listen to a pathbreaking exploration of art's relationship with power and ideology set out in Art and Ideology – the third volume of writings by emigre Marxist art critic Hans Hess.Hess's penetrating analysis reveals how 'what now replaces the function of art is advertising ' in our contemporary world, where 'the goods have become the gods'.It traces the transformation from art's earliest social purposes – like the cave paintings of A...