Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas

by Harrison, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780631227076
• ISBN10: 0631227075
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

The Legacy of Symbolism
Classicism and Originality	15	(44)
Expression and the Primitive	59	(73)
The Idea of the Modern World
Modernity	132	(52)
Cubism	184	(42)
Rationalization and Transformation
Neo-Classicism and the Call to Order	226	(24)
Dissent and Disorder	250	(26)
Abstraction and Form	276	(57)
Utility and Construction	333	(29)
Freedom, Responsibility and Power
The Modern as Ideal	362	(40)
Realism as Figuration	402	(40)
Realism as Critique	442	(64)
Modernism as Critique	506	(56)
The Individual and the Social
The American Avant-Garde	562	(33)
Individualism in Europe	595	(45)
Art and Society	640	(53)
The Moment of Modernism
Art and Modern Life	693	(69)
Modernist Art	762	(56)
Institutions and Objections
Objecthood and Reductivism	818	(50)
Attitudes to Form	868	(45)
Political Aspects	913	(31)
Critical Revisions	944	(74)
Ideas of the Postmodern
The Critique of Originality	1018	(39)
Figures of Difference	1057	(60)
The Condition of History	1117