Art rethought: the social practices of art

Part one : The grand narrative of art in the modern world

The Early Modern revolution in the arts

Why the revolution?

The grand narrative and the grand narrative theses

Wherein lies the worth of disinterested attention?

Art, religion, and the grand narrative

Part two : Why the grand narrative has to go

The inapplicability of the grand narrative to recent art

Why the grand narrative never was tenable

Part three : A new framework for thinking about the arts

The arts as social practices

Meaning of works of the arts and of artworks

Part four : Memorial art

The social practices of memorial art

The memorial meaning of the mural art of Belfast

Part five : Art for veneration

The social practices of art for veneration

Part six : Social protest art

The social practices of social protest art

The social protest meaning of Uncle Tom's Cabin

The social protest meaning of the graphic art of Käthe Kollwitz

Part seven : Art that enhances

Work songs : social practice and meaning

Part eight : The art-reflexive art of today's art world

The social practices of art-reflexive art

Art-reflexive meaning in the work of Sherrie Levine

Part nine : Epilogue : good works and just practices

What happened to beauty?

The pursuit of justice and the social practices of art.