Modern Art And Modernism: A Critical Anthology

by Frascina,Francis

• ISBN13: 9780064301244
• ISBN10: 0064301249
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1983-03-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Modernist Painting	p. 5
Historical Interpretation	p. 11
The Salon of 1846: on the Heroism of Modern Life	p. 17
The Salon of 1859: the Modern Public and Photography	p. 19
The Painter of Modern Life	p. 23
Edouard Manet	p. 29
The Impressionists and Edouard Manet	p. 39
'L'Exposition Des Ind?pendants' in 1880	p. 45
From Gauguin and Van Gogh to Classicism	p. 51
References	p. 55
C?zanne	p. 57
The Aesthetic Hypothesis	p. 67
The Debt to C?zanne	p. 75
An Essay in Aesthetics	p. 79
The French Post-Impressionists	p. 89
'American-Type' Painting	p. 93
Collage	p. 105
Master L?ger	p. 109
Three American Painters	p. 115
Reference	p. 119
What is Revolutionary Art?	p. 123
Barnett Newman	p. 129
References	p. 132
From the Easel to the Machine	p. 135
On Non-Objective Painting	p. 143
The Beauty of Non-Objectivity	p. 145
Illusion and Visual Deadlock	p. 149
References	p. 156
Abstraction and Empathy	p. 159
References	p. 164
Expressionism	p. 165
References	p. 169
Abstraction and Mysticism	p. 171
Expression and Communication	p. 177
References	p. 188
Art and Inquiry	p. 191
The Development of Modern Art	p. 205
Literature and Revolution	p. 209
The Author as Producer	p. 213
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction	p. 217
Poetic Evidence	p. 221
Popularity and Realism	p. 227
The Sociological Approach: the Concept of Ideology in the History of Art	p. 233
L?ger	p. 239
Art History and Class Struggle	p. 243
References	p. 248
On the Social History of Art	p. 249
Preliminaries to a Possible Treatment of Olympia in 1865	p. 259
References	p. 273
The Laundress in Late Nineteeth-Century French Culture: Imagery, Ideology and Edgar Degas	p. 275
Les Donn?es Bretonnantes: la Prairie de la Repr?sentation	p. 285
References	p. 302
Names	p. 305
Concepts and Terms of Reference Employed in Critical Writing on Art of the Period	p. 309
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