Art in theory, 1900-2000 : an anthology of changing ideas / edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood.
Contributor(s): Harrison, Charles | Wood, Paul
Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell, 2003Edition: New edDescription: xxvii, 1258 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0002757277ISBN: 9780631227083 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Art -- Philosophy | Art, Modern -- Philosophy. -- 20th century | Art and Design | The arts: general issues | History of art | Fine arts: treatments & subjects | 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 | Theory of art | RomanticismDDC classification: 701.180904 LOC classification: N6490 | .A7167 2003Summary: These 300 texts provide a vivid introduction to the history of art between 1900 and 2000. Major themes considered include: concepts of genius and originality, modes of landscape painting, the question of Modernity, and the aesthetics of photography. This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s. New edition of this popular anthology of twentieth-century art-theoretical texts. Now updated to include the results of new research, together with significant contributions from the 1990s. Includes writings by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures. The editors provide contextual introductions to 340 texts. Complements Art in Theory 1648-1815 and Art in Theory 1815-1900 to create a complete survey of the theories underpinning the development of art in the modern period.
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This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s. New edition of this popular anthology of twentieth-century art-theoretical texts. Now updated to include the results of new research, together with significant contributions from the 1990s. Includes writings by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures. The editors provide contextual introductions to 340 texts. Complements Art in Theory 1648-1815 and Art in Theory 1815-1900 to create a complete survey of the theories underpinning the development of art in the modern period.
Previous edition: 1992.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1188-1211) and index.
These 300 texts provide a vivid introduction to the history of art between 1900 and 2000. Major themes considered include: concepts of genius and originality, modes of landscape painting, the question of Modernity, and the aesthetics of photography. This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s. New edition of this popular anthology of twentieth-century art-theoretical texts. Now updated to include the results of new research, together with significant contributions from the 1990s. Includes writings by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures. The editors provide contextual introductions to 340 texts. Complements Art in Theory 1648-1815 and Art in Theory 1815-1900 to create a complete survey of the theories underpinning the development of art in the modern period.
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- Preface and Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Presentation and Editing of Texts.General Introduction.
- Part I The Legacy of Symbolism:Introduction
- 1 Classicism and Originality:Paul Signac: from Eugène Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism 1899.
- Paul Gauguin: letter to Fontainas 1899.
- Sigmund Freud: from `On Dreams' 1901.
- Otto Weininger: from Sex and Character 1903.
- Max Liebermann: 'Imagination in Painting' 1904.
- Paul Cézanne: letters to Emile Bernard 1904-06.
- Rainer Maria Rilke: from Letters on Cézanne 1907.
- Maurice Denis (intro. Roger Fry): 'Cézanne' 1907.
- Maurice Denis: 'From Gauguin and Van Gogh to Neo-Classicism' 1909.
- Julius Meier-Graefe: `The Mediums of Art, Past and Present' 1904.
- Giorgio de Chirico: `Mystery and Creation' 1913
- 2 Expression and the Primitive:August Endell: 'The Beauty of Form and Decorative Art' 1897-98.
- Albert Pinkham Ryder: 'Paragraphs from the Studio of a Recluse' 1905.
- André Derain: letters to Vlaminck c.1905-1909.
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: programme of Die Brücke 1906.
- Wilhelm Worringer: from Abstraction and Empathy 1908.
- Henri Matisse: 'Notes of a Painter' 1908.
- Roger Fry: 'An Essay in Aesthetics' 1909.
- Wassily Kandinsky: from Concerning the Spiritual in Art 1911.
- Wassily Kandinsky: The Cologne Lecture 1914.
- Franz Marc: 'The "Savages" of Germany' and 'Two Pictures' 1912.
- August Macke: 'Masks' 1912.
- Emil Nolde: 'On Primitive Art' 1912.
- Oscar Kokoschka: 'On the Nature of Visions' 1912.
- Alexander Shevchenko: 'Neo-Primitivism' 1913.
- Benedetto Croce: 'What is Art?' 1913.
- Clive Bell: 'The Aesthetic Hypothesis' 1914.
- Carl Einstein: 'Negro Sculpture' 1915.
- Hermann Bahr: from Expressionism 1916.
- Hans Prinzhorn: from Artistry of the Mentally Ill 1922.
- Part II The Idea of the Modern World:Introduction
- 3 Modernity:Georg Simmel: 'Metropolis and Mental Life' 1902-3.
- Max Weber: 'Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism' 1904-05.
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: 'Party Organization and Party Literature' 1905.
- Henri Bergson: from Creative Evolution 1907.
- Alexander Blok: 'Nature and Culture' 1908.
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: 'The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism' 1909.
- Umberto Boccioni et al: 'Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto' 1910.
- Robert Delaunay: 'On the Construction of Reality in Pure Painting' 1912.
- Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov: from Art and Social Life 1912.
- Franz Marc: 'Foreword' 1914.
- Fernand Léger: 'Contemporary Achievements in Painting' 1914.
- Percy Wyndham Lewis: 'Our Vortex' 1914.
- Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: 'Gaudier-Brzeska Vortex' 1914, and 'Vortex Gaudier-Brzeska' 1915.
- Ludwig Meidner: 'Instructions for Painting Pictures of the Metropolis' 1914.
- Karl Kraus: from 'In These Great Times' 1914.
- Kasimir Malevich: From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting 1915-16
- 4 Cubism:Jean Metzinger: 'Note on Painting' 1910.
- Guillaume Apollinaire: 'The Cubists' 1911.
- Guillaume Apollinaire: 'On the Subject in Modern Painting' 1912.
- Guillaume Apollinaire: 'The New Painting: Art Notes' 1912.
- Guillaume Apollinaire: from The Cubist Painters 1912.
- Jacques Rivière: 'Present Tendencies in Painting' 1912.
- Albert Gleizes
- Fernand Léger: 'The Origins of Painting and its Representational Value' 1913.
- Olga Rozanova: 'The Bases of the New Creation' 1913.
- Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: from The Rise of Cubism 1916-20.
- Georges Braque: 'Thoughts on Painting' 1917.
- Pablo Picasso: 'Picasso Speaks' 1923.
- Part III Rationalization and Transformation:Introduction
- 5 Neo-Classicism and the Call to Order:Amédée Ozenfant: 'Notes on Cubism' 1916.
- Guillaume Apollinaire: 'The New Spirit and the Poets' 1918.
- Oswald Spengler: from The Decline of the West 1918.
- Carlo Carrà: 'Our Antiquity' 1916-18.
- Léonce Rosenberg: 'Tradition and Cubism' 1
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