Essays explore the impact of artistic theories and criticism on the development of art from the nineteenth to the twentieth century

Modern Art and Modernism

Frascina, Francis

Arts & Photography

Harpercollins College Div

Modern Art And Modernism (Icon Editions)

Modern Art and Modernism offers firsthand material for the study of issues central to the development of modern art, its theory, and criticism. The history of modern art is not simply a history of works of art, it is also a history of ideas interpretations. The works of critics and theorists have not merely been influential in deciding how modern art is to be seen and understood, they have also influenced the course it has taken. The nature of modern art cannot be understood without some analysis of the concept of Modernism itself.Modern Art and Modernism presents a selection of texts by the major contributors to debate on this subject, from Baudelaire and Zola in the nineteenth century to Greenberg and T. J. Clark in our own times. It offers a balanced section of essays by contributors to the mainstream of Modernist criticism, representative examples of writing on the themes of abstraction and expression in modern art, and a number of important contributions to the discussion of aesthetics and the social role of the artist. Several of these are made available in English translation for the first time, and others are brought together from a wide range of periodicals and specialized collections.This book will provide an invaluable resource for teachers and students of modern art, art history, and aesthetics, as well as for general readers interested in the place of modern art in culture and history.

Modern Art And Modernism: A Critical Anthology (Icon Editions)

Harrison, Charles

History & Criticism

Routledge

Essays examine the concept of modernism in art, the political aspects of the abstract expressionism movement, and the criticism of modern art

Pollock And After: The Critical Debate

Harper&Row

Art In Modern Culture: An Anthology Of Critical Texts

Since the 1960s there have been major controversies and debates over the meaning of "art" and "culture". The history of modern art and modern culture is not simply a history of a particular canon of great art and great artists, but a history of ideas, values and beliefs. It is also a struggle between various agents vying for intellectual prominence and power. This critical anthology on the place of art in modern culture and history contains 33 essays and articles by various contributors. It should be a resource for students concerned with modern art, not as a specialized and insulated concern, but as an important aspect of socio-cultural relations. Francis Frascina and Jonathan Harris are also the editors of "Modern Art and Modernism".

Har, Yona

Westview Press

Since the 1960s there have been major controversies and debates over the meaning of "art" and "culture". The history of modern art and modern culture is not simply a history of a particular canon of great art and great artists, but a history of ideas, values and beliefs. It is also a struggle between various agents vying for intellectual prominence and power. This critical anthology on the place of art in modern culture and history contains 33 essays and articles by various contributors. It should be a resource for students concerned with modern art, not as a specialized and insulated concern, but as an important aspect of socio-cultural relations. Francis Frascina and Jonathan Harris are also the editors of "Modern Art and Modernism".

Har, Jona

Basic Books

This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The books provide an introduction to modern European and American art and criticism that should be valuable both to students and to the general reader. This first volume focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris between 1848 and 1900. Discussing works by Courbet, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Morisot and other great painters of the period, the authors demonstrate how some historians view this art as representative of the social, historical, and economic circumstances in which it was produced, how the painterly effects of the art are evaluated and how a feminist perspective can help to explain art works and change our perception of them.

Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Modern Art Practices and Debates)

Fer, Briony

Blake, Nigel

Harrison, Dr. Charles

Garb, Ms. Tamar

Yale University Press

This first volume in the series focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism in Paris between 1848 and 1900. Discussing works by Courbet, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Morisot, and other great painters of the period, the authors demonstrate how some historians view this art as representative of the social, historical, and economic circumstances in which it was produced, how the painterly effects of the art are evaluated, and how a feminist perspective can help to explain art works and change our perception of them.

Garb, Tamar

Biographies & Memoirs

This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The books provide an introduction to modern European and American art and criticism that should be valuable both to students and to the general reader. The book presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the 20th century. The authors begin by exploring how aspects of the primitive were invoked by rural artists' colonies formed in France and Germany at the end of the 19th century and by the work of the Fauves and the German Expressionists a few years later. The book then develops an analysis of Cubist works based on semiotic theory, considering the social and cultural values encoded in such signifying systems, and investigating the relationship between representation and ideology. The final chapter considers some problems of interpretation and evolution posed by specific examples of abstract art ranging from Malevich to Mondrian.

Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century (Modern Art-Practices and Debates)

Perry, Gill

This volume presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the twentieth century. The authors begin by exploring how aspects of the primitive were invoked by the rural artists' colonies formed in France and Germany at the end of the nineteenth century and by the work of the Fauves and the German Expressionists a few years later. The book then develops an analysis of Cubist works based on semiotic theory, considering the social and cultural values encoded in such signifying systems, and investigating the relationship between representation and ideology. The final chapter considers some problems of interpretation and evolution posed by specific examples of abstract art ranging from Malevich to Mondrian.

Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century (Modern Art : Practices and Debates)

Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties (Modern Art Practices and Debates)

This is the final volume in a series of four books about art and its interpretation from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. The books seek to explain the most important issues confronting any study of modern art, without attempting exhaustive coverage. They present a range of approaches characteristic of current art-historical debates. This fourth volume focuses on art since the 1930s, the main emphasis being on the period since the Second World War. The first chapter, 'Modernism and culture in the USA, 1930-1960', examines the ideological interests that governed the predominant Modernist account of the period. It establishes a different perspective by considering the connection between 'historical' and 'theoretical' debates in terms of the relationships between art, culture and society in the USA. Although the two focal points are the 1930s and the years after the Second World War, questions of cultural value and power in capitalist societies are also discussed in the context of parallels to be found in conditions during the 1990s. Chapter 2, 'The politics of representation', examines debates about the practices of art, art criticism and curatorial validation since the 1940s. These practices - considered as representations of ideas, values and beliefs - were produced in a period dominated by the Cold War consensus. A major issue is whether this consensus was ruptured during the late 1960s by a counter-culture characterized by, for example, feminism and the anti-Vietnam War movement. While questions about the function of art and culture are mostly located in the specific social and political conditions existing between the 1940s and the early 1970s, issues about the legacy of this period are also considered. The final chapter, 'Modernity and Modernism reconsidered', examines the high Modernism of the 1960s and goes on to review movements such as Minimal Art, Land Art and Conceptual Art which continued or contested that tradition. It also considers various artistic forms of the 1980s and discusses the apparent revival of interest in painting. The chapter closes with an inquiry into the implications of the postmodernism debate for the practice of art today.

Harris, Jonathan

Wood, Paul

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Modern Art and Modernism

Modern Art And Modernism: A Critical Anthology (Icon Editions)

Pollock And After: The Critical Debate

Art In Modern Culture: An Anthology Of Critical Texts

Art In Modern Culture: An Anthology Of Critical Texts

Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Modern Art Practices and Debates)

Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Modern Art Practices and Debates)

Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century (Modern Art-Practices and Debates)

Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century (Modern Art : Practices and Debates)

Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties (Modern Art Practices and Debates)