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

by Harrison, Charles; Wood, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780631227083
• ISBN10: 0631227083
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-22
• Publisher: Wiley

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.

Author Biography

Charles Harrison is Professor of History and Theory of Art and Staff Tutor in Arts at the Open University. He is the author of numerous books on modern art criticism and art theory.

Paul Wood is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University. He is co-editor, with Charles Harrison and Jason Gaiger, of Art in Theory 1648–1815 (2001) and Art in Theory 1815–1900 (1998).

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	xxv
A note on the Presentation and Editing of Texts	xxvi
General Introduction	1	(10)
I The Legacy of Symbolism
Introduction	11	(4)
IA Classicism and Originality	15	(44)
from Eugene Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism 1899	15	(3)
Paul Signac
Letter to Fontainas 1899	18	(3)
Paul Gauguin
from `On Dreams' 1901	21	(7)
Sigmund Freud
from Sex and Character 1903	28	(2)
Otto Weininger
`Imagination in Painting' 1904	30	(3)
Max Liebermann
Letter to Emile Bernard 1904--1906	33	(3)
Paul Cezanne
From Letters on Cezanne 1907	36	(3)
Rainer Maria Rilke
`Cezanne' 1907	39	(7)
Maurice Denis
`From Gauguin and Van Gogh to Neo-Classicism' 1909	46	(5)
Maurice Denis
`The Mediums of Art, Past and Present' 1904	51	(7)
Julius Meier-Graefe
`Mystery and Creation' 1913	58	(1)
Giorgio de Chirico
IB Expression and the Primitive	59	(73)
`The Beauty of Form and Decorative Art' 1897--8	59	(3)
August Endell
`Paragraphs from the Studio of a Recluse' 1905	62	(1)
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Letters to Vlaminck c. 1905--1909	63	(2)
Andre Derain
Programme of the Brucke 1906	65	(1)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
from Abstraction and Empathy 1908	66	(3)
Wilhelm Worringer
`Notes of a Painter' 1908	69	(6)
Henri Matisse
`An Essay in Aesthetics' 1909	75	(7)
Roger Fry
from Concerning the Spiritual in Art 1911	82	(7)
Wassily Kandinsky
The Cologne Lecture 1914	89	(4)
Wassily Kandinsky
`The ``Savages'' of Germany' and `Two Pictures' 1912	93	(2)
Franz Marc
`Masks' 1912	95	(1)
August Macke
`On Primitive Art' 1912	96	(1)
Emil Nolde
`On the Nature of Visions' 1912	97	(2)
Oscar Kokoschka
`Neo-Primitivism' 1913	99	(3)
Alexander Shevchenko
`What is Art?' 1913	102	(5)
Benedetto Croce
`The Aesthetic Hypothesis' 1914	107	(3)
Clive Bell
`Negro Sculpture' 1915	110	(6)
Carl Einstein
from Expressionism 1916	116	(5)
Hermann Bahr
from Artistry of the Mentally Ill 1922	121	(11)
Hans Prinzhorn
II The Idea of the Modern World
Introduction	127	(5)
IIA Modernity	132	(52)
`The Metropolis and Mental Life' 1902--3	132	(4)
George Simmel
`Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism' 1904--5	136	(2)
Max Weber
`Party Organization and Party Literature' 1905	138	(3)
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
from Creative Evolution 1907	141	(3)
Henri Bergson
`Nature and Culture' 1908	144	(2)
Alexander Blok
`The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism' 1909	146	(4)
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
`Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto' 1910	150	(2)
Umberto Boccioni
`On the Construction of Reality in Pure Painting' 1912	152	(2)
Robert Delaunay
from Art and Social Life 1912	154	(4)
Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov
`Foreword' 1914	158	(1)
Franz Marc
`Contemporary Achievements in Painting' 1914	159	(3)
Fernand Leger
`Our Vortex' 1914	162	(1)
Percy Wyndham Lewis
`Gaudier-Brzeska Vortex' 1914, and `Vortex Gaudier-Brzeska' 1915	163	(4)
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
`Instructions for Painting Pictures of the Metropolis' 1914	167	(4)
Ludwig Meidner
from `In These Great Times' 1914	171	(2)
Karl Kraus
from Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting 1915--16	173	(11)
Kasimir Malevich
IIB Cubism	184	(42)
`Note on Painting' 1910	184	(1)
Jean Metzinger
`The Cubists' 1911	185	(1)
Guillaume Apollinaire
`On the Subject in Modern Painting' 1912	186	(1)
Guillaume Apollinaire
`The New Painting: Art Notes' 1912	187	(1)
Guillaume Apollinaire
from The Cubist Painters 1912	188	(2)
Guillaume Apollinaire
`Present Tendencies in Painting' 1912	190	(4)
Jacques Riviere
from Cubism 1912	194	(7)
Albert Gleizes
Jean Metzinger
`The Origins of Painting and its Representational Value' 1913	201	(4)
Fernand Leger
`The Bases of the New Creation' 1913	205	(3)
Olga Rozanova
from The Rise of Cubism 1916--20	208	(6)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
`Thoughts on Painting' 1917	214	(1)
Georges Braque
`Picasso Speaks' 1923	215	(11)
Pablo Picasso
III Rationalization and Transformation
Introduction	221	(5)
IIIA Neo-Classicism and the Call to Order	226	(24)
`Notes on Cubism' 1916	226	(2)
Amedee Ozenfant
`The New Spirit and the Poets' 1918	228	(2)
Guillaume Apollinaire
from The Decline of the West 1918	230	(2)
Oswald Spengler
`Our Antiquity' 1916--18	232	(4)
Carlo Carra
`Tradition and Cubism' 1919	236	(1)
Leonce Rosenberg
`The Return to the Craft' 1919	236	(3)
Giorgio de Chirico
`Purism' 1920	239	(3)
Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier)
Amedee Ozenfant
`The Dada Case' 1920	242	(3)
Albert Gleizes
`On Raphael' 1920	245	(1)
Andre Derain
`The Children of the New Epoch' 1921	245	(1)
Percy Wyndham Lewis
Reply to a Questionnaire 1921	246	(1)
Juan Gris
`Reply to a Questionnaire' 1922	247	(3)
Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub
IIIB Dissent and Disorder	250	(26)
`Dada Fragments' 1916--17	250	(2)
Hugo Ball
`The Richard Mutt Case' 1917	252	(1)
Marcel Duchamp
`Dada Manifesto 1918' 1918	252	(5)
Tristan Tzara
`First German Dada Manifesto' 1918	257	(2)
Richard Huelsenbeck
`What is Dadaism and what does it want in Germany?' 1919	259	(1)
Richard Huelsenbeck
Raoul Hausmann
from En Avant Dada 1920	260	(3)
Richard Huelsenbeck
`The Decline of Humanism' 1918	263	(2)
Alexander Blok
Novembergruppe Draft Manifesto 1918 and `Guidelines' 1919	265	(2)
Novembergruppe Opposition `Open Letter to the Novembergruppe' 1921	267	(2)
Reply to Arbeitsrat fur Kunst Questionnaire 1919	269	(1)
Walter Gropius
`Creative Credo' 1918--20	270	(1)
Max Beckmann
`Creative Credo' 1920	271	(1)
Max Pechstein
`My New Pictures' 1921	272	(2)
George Grosz
`Thank you, Francis!' 1923	274	(2)
Francis Picabia
IIIC Abstraction and Form	276	(57)
Introduction to a Catalogue 1915	276	(1)
Hans Arp
Statement 1916	277	(1)
Man Ray
from `Art as Technique' 1917	277	(4)
Viktor Shklovsky
`Manifesto 1' 1918	281	(1)
De Stijl
from Principles of Neo-Plastic Art 1915--25	281	(3)
Theo van Doesburg
`Dialogue on the New Plastic' 1919	284	(5)
Piet Mondrian
Neo-Plasticism: The General Principle of Plastic Equivalence 1920--1	289	(3)
Piet Mondrian
`Non-Objective Art and Suprematism' 1919	292	(1)
Kasimir Malevich
The Question of Imitative Art 1920	293	(5)
Kasimir Malevich
`The Realistic Manifesto' 1920	298	(2)
Naum Gabo
Anton Pevsner
Unovis `Programme of a United Audience in Painting of the Vitebsk State Free Workshops' 1920	300	(2)
`Plan for the Physico-psychological Department of the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences' 1921	302	(2)
Wassily Kandinsky
`Analyses of the Old Masters' 1921	304	(2)
Johannes Itten
Diary Extracts 1922--3	306	(3)
Oskar Schlemmer
`The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus' 1923	309	(5)
Walter Gropius
`Declaration of the International Fraction of Constructivists of the First International Congress of Progressive Artist' 1922--3	314	(2)
Theo van Doesburg
EI Lissitsky
Hans Richter
`What is legitimately called the New Art...' 1924	316	(1)
Wladyslaw Strzeminski
`A. and Pangeometry' 1925	317	(4)
EI Lissitsky
`The painter' c.1920	321	(2)
Hannah Hoch
from The Dehumanization of Art 1925	323	(10)
Jose Ortega y Gasset
IIID Utility and Construction	333	(29)
KOMFUT `Programme Declaration' 1919	333	(1)
`The Initiative Individual in the Collective' 1919	334	(1)
Vladimir Tatlin
Catalogue Statement 1919	335	(1)
Lyubov Popova
`The Monument to the Third International' 1920	336	(3)
Nikolai Punin
`Slogans' and `Organizational Programme' 1920--1	339	(2)
Alexander Rodchenko
`Programme of the First Working Group of Constructivists' 1922	341	(2)
Alexander Rodchenko
Varvara Stepanova
from Constructivism 1922	343	(1)
Alexei Gan
Statement by the editors of Veshch 1922	344	(1)
EI Lissitsky
Ilya Ehrenburg
LEF editorial `Whom is LEF alerting?' 1923	345	(2)
`The So-Called ``Formal Method'' 1923	347	(1)
Osip Brik
`From Picture to Calico-Print' 1924	348	(4)
Osip Brik
`Report of the Section for Material Culture's Research Work' 1924	352	(10)
Vladimir Tatlin
IV Freedom, Responsibility and Power
Introduction	357	(5)
IVA The Modern as Ideal	362	(40)
from On Modern Art 1924	362	(7)
Paul Klee
from Foundations of Modern Art 1928	369	(2)
Amedee Ozenfant
`On the Aims of Art' 1931	371	(3)
Hans Hofmann
Editorial Statements 1932 and 1933	374	(2)
Abstraction-Creation
Statements 1932 and 1933	376	(2)
Wladyslaw Strzeminski
On the concept of the `archetype' 1934 and 1938	378	(3)
Carl Gustav Jung
from Cubism and Abstract Art 1936	381	(2)
Alfred H. Barr Jr
Statements to Teriade 1936	383	(1)
Henri Matisse
`The Constructive Idea in Art' 1937	384	(3)
Naum Gabo
`Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art' 1937	387	(6)
Piet Mondrian
`Sculpture' 1937	393	(3)
Barbara Hepworth
American Abstract Artists Editorial Statement 1938	396	(1)
`On Inventing Our Own Art' 1938	397	(1)
Ibram Lassaw
`Notes on Abstract Art' 1941	398	(4)
Ben Nicholson
IVB Realism as Figuration	402	(40)
`On Proletarian Culture' 1920	402	(1)
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
AKhRR `Declaration' 1922	403	(1)
AKhRR `The Immediate Tasks of AKhRR' 1924	404	(2)
`A Declaration of Social, Political and Aesthetic Principles' 1922	406	(1)
David A. Siqueiros
Red Group `Manifesto' 1924	407	(1)
`The Object is Primary' 1927	408	(1)
Otto Dix
ARBKD (Asso) `Manifesto' and `Statutes' 1928	408	(3)
from `My Life' 1928	411	(1)
George Grosz
from The Myth of the Twentieth Century 1930	412	(1)
Alfred Rosenberg
``Tendency'' or Partisanship?' 1932	413	(4)
Georg Lukacs
Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party `Decree on the Reconstruction of Literary and Artistic Organizations' 1932	417	(1)
John Reed Club of New York `Draft Manifesto' 1932	418	(3)
`The Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art' 1932	421	(3)
Diego Rivera
`Manifesto of Mural Painting' 1933	424	(2)
Mario Sironi
`Speech to the Congress of Soviet Writers' 1934	426	(3)
Andrei Zhdanov
`Towards a Transformation of the Plastic Arts' 1934	429	(2)
David A. Siqueiros
`Abstract Painting in America', `Contradictions in Abstractions' and `A Medium of 2 Dimensions' 1935	431	(4)
Stuart Davis
Clarence Weinstock
from Revolt Against the City 1935	435	(2)
Grant Wood
`Content and Form in Art' 1935	437	(2)
Francis Klingender
Speech Inaugurating the `Great Exhibition of German Art' 1937	439	(3)
Adolf Hitler
IVC Realism as Critique	442	(64)
from Literature and Revolution 1922--3	442	(5)
Leon Trotsky
from the First Manifesto of Surrealism 1924	447	(6)
Andre Breton
from Paris Peasant 1924	453	(3)
Louis Aragon
`Declaration of the Bureau de Recherche Surrealistes' 1925	456	(1)
Louis Aragon
Surrealism and Painting 1928	457	(6)
Andre Breton
from the `Second Manifesto of Surrealism' 1929	463	(4)
Andre Breton
`Art is in Danger' 1925	467	(3)
George Grosz
Wieland Herzfelde
`Photography versus Painting' 1926	470	(3)
Osip Brik
`We Are Searching' and `We Raise the Alarm' 1927	473	(4)
Sergei Tretyakov
from `The Mass Ornament' 1927	477	(3)
Siegfried Kracauer
October (Association of Artistic Labour) `Declaration' 1928	480	(2)
from `Critical Dictionary' 1929--30	482	(2)
Georges Bataille
`The Lugubrious Game' 1929	484	(2)
Georges Bataille
`The Stinking Ass' 1930	486	(3)
Salvador Dali
`Photomontage as a New Problem in Agit Art' 1931	489	(2)
Gustav Klucis
`What is Surrealism?' 1934	491	(2)
Max Ernst
`The Author as Producer' 1934	493	(6)
Walter Benjamin
`Popularity and Realism' 1938	499	(3)
Bertolt Brecht
`The New Realism Goes On' 1937	502	(4)
Fernand Leger
IVD Modernism as Critique	506	(56)
Letter to Meyerhold 1932	506	(1)
Kasimir Malevich
`Conversation with Picasso' 1935	507	(3)
Pablo Picasso
`What is Revolutionary Art?' 1935	510	(4)
Herbert Read
`The Social Bases of Art' 1936	514	(4)
Meyer Schapiro
from Aesthetic Function 1934/6	518	(2)
Jan Mukarovsky
`The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' 1936	520	(7)
Walter Benjamin
Letter to Benjamin 1936	527	(3)
Theodor Adorno
`Discussing Expressionism' 1938	530	(2)
Ernst Bloch
`Towards a Free Revolutionary Art' 1938	532	(4)
Andre Breton
Diego Rivera
Leon Trotsky
`Good Art and Bad Art' 1938	536	(3)
R. G. Collingwood
`Avant-Garde and Kitsch' 1939	539	(10)
Clement Greenberg
`The Fall of Paris' 1940	549	(13)
Harold Rosenberg
V The Individual and the Social
Introduction	557	(5)
VA The American Avant--Garde	562	(33)
`Towards a Newer Laocoon' 1940	562	(6)
Clement Greenberg
Statement 1943	568	(1)
Adolph Gottlieb
Mark Rothko
Barnett Newman
Answers to a Questionnaire 1944	569	(1)
Jackson Pollock
Two Statements 1947 and 1947/8	570	(1)
Jackson Pollock
`The Romantics were Prompted...' 1947	571	(2)
Mark Rothko
Statement 1947	573	(1)
Mark Rothko
Statement 1947	573	(1)
Adolph Gottlieb
`The Ideographic Picture' 1947	573	(1)
Barnett Newman
`The First Man was an Artist' 1947	574	(3)
Barnett Newman
`The Decline of Cubism' 1948	577	(3)
Clement Greenberg
`The Sublime is Now' 1948	580	(2)
Barnett Newman
`A Desperate View' 1949	582	(1)
Willem de Kooning
Interview with William Wright 1950	583	(3)
Jackson Pollock
`Aesthetics, the Artist and the Audience' 1952	586	(2)
David Smith
Statement 1952	588	(1)
Clyfford Still
from `The American Action Painters' 1952	589	(3)
Harold Rosenberg
Letter to Gordon Smith 1959	592	(3)
Clyfford Still
VB Individualism in Europe	595	(45)
Wols Aphorisms c.1945--51	595	(5)
from Existentialism and Humanism 1946	600	(3)
Jean-Paul Sartre
`Notes for the Well-Lettered' 1946	603	(2)
Jean Dubuffet
`Crude Art Preferred to Cultural Art' 1949	605	(3)
Jean Dubuffet
from Van Gogh: The Man Suicided by Society 1947	608	(3)
Antonin Artaud
`The Search for the Absolute' 1948	611	(5)
Jean-Paul Sartre
from Three Dialogues 1949	616	(4)
Samuel Beckett
Georges Duthuit
`The Mirror-Phase as Formative of the Function of the I' 1949	620	(4)
Jacques Lacan
Abstraction and Adventure in Contemporary Art' 1950	624	(1)
Jean-Michel Atlan
`Reflections on the Statuettes, Figures and Paintings of Alberto Giacometti' 1951	625	(1)
Francis Ponge
`Creation and Revolution' 1951	626	(3)
Alberto Camus
from An Other Art 1952	629	(2)
Michel Tapie
`Pandemonium Manifestos' 1961-2	631	(4)
Georg Baselitz
Interview with David Sylvester 1962--3	635	(5)
Francis Bacon
VC Art and Society	640	(53)
`Open Opinions on Painting' 1942	640	(1)
Maurice de Vlaminck
from Marxism and Modern Art 1943	641	(2)
Francis Klingender
`The Modern Painter's World' 1944	643	(3)
Robert Motherwell
`Crisis of Renewal' 1944	646	(2)
Renato Guttuso
`Why I Joined the Communist Party' 1944	648	(1)
Pablo Picasso
Statement to Simone Tery 1945	648	(1)
Pablo Picasso
on Moses 1945	649	(3)
Frida Kahlo
`The White Manifesto' 1946	652	(4)
Lucio Fontana
from `Aspects of Two Cultures' 1947	656	(3)
Vladimir Kemenov
`The Question of What Will Emerge Is Left Open' 1947/8	659	(1)
Robert Motherwell
Harold Rosenberg
Constant `Our Own Desires Build the Revolution' 1949	659	(2)
`Forms Conceived as Language' 1949	661	(1)
Asger Jorn
`The Painter on his Battlement' 1948	661	(2)
Andre Fougeron
from the `Darmstadt Colloquy' 1950	663	(2)
Hans Sedlmayr
Theodor Adorno
from The Congressional Record 1949	665	(3)
George Dondero
from The Politics of Freedom 1950	668	(2)
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
`Is Modern Art Communistic?' 1952	670	(4)
Alfred H. Barr Jr
`The Artist and the Politician' 1953	674	(3)
Ben Shahn
`The Sculptor in Modern Society' 1952	677	(3)
Henry Moore
`Open Letter to the Painters, Sculptors and Engravers of the Soviet Union' 1955	680	(3)
David A. Siqueiros
`The Ideology of Modernism' 1956	683	(10)
Georg Lukacs
VI The Moment of Modernism
Introduction	689	(4)
VIA Art and Modern Life	693	(69)
from `Myth Today' 1956	693	(5)
Roland Barthes
Gutai Manifesto 1956	698	(3)
Jiro Yoshihara
Guy Debord Writings from the Situationist International 1957--61	701	(6)
`Detourned Painting' 1959	707	(3)
Asger Jorn
`On National Culture' 1959	710	(5)
Frantz Fanon
`The Arts and the Mass Media' 1958	715	(2)
Lawrence Alloway
from Assemblages, Environments and Happenings 1959--65	717	(5)
Allan Kaprow
`Free Dimension' 1960	722	(2)
Piero Manzoni
`The New Realists' 1960	724	(1)
Pierre Restany
GRAV (Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel) `Transforming the Current Situation of Plastic Art' 1961/2	725	(2)
`Neo-Dada in Music, Theater, Poetry, Art' 1962	727	(2)
George Maciunas
`The Analysis of Culture' 1961	729	(5)
Raymond Williams
`On Robert Rauschenberg, Artist, and his Work' 1961	734	(3)
John Cage
Interview with David Sylvester 1965	737	(5)
Jasper Johns
`For the Finest Art, Try Pop' 1961	742	(1)
Richard Hamilton
from Documents from The Store 1961	743	(4)
Claes Oldenburg
Interview with Gene Swenson 1963	747	(2)
Andy Warhol
Lecture to the College Art Association 1964	749	(2)
Roy Lichtenstein
from The Shape of Time 1962	751	(3)
George Kubler
from Understanding Media 1964	754	(3)
Marshall McLuhan
`Notes 1964--1965'	757	(3)
Gerhard Richter
from an interview with Samuel Wagstaff Jr 1966	760	(1)
Tony Smith
Obituary of Marcel Duchamp 1968	760	(2)
Jasper Johns
VIB Modernist Art	762	(56)
`Commitment' 1957	762	(4)
Alain Robbe-Grillet
`Tradition and Identity' 1959	766	(1)
David Smith
from `Eye and Mind' 1961	767	(4)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
`Remarks about Painting' 1961	771	(2)
Roger Hilton
`Modernist Painting' 1960--5	773	(6)
Clement Greenberg
from `Commitment' 1962	779	(4)
Theodor Adorno
Interview with Dorothy Gees Seckler 1962	783	(2)
Barnett Newman
from `After Abstract Expressionism' 1962	785	(2)
Clement Greenberg
from Three American Painters 1965	787	(6)
Michael Fried
from `Shape as Form: Frank Stella's New Paintings' 1966	793	(2)
Michael Fried
`Painting in Color' 1967	795	(1)
Jules Olitski
`A Matter of Meaning It' 1967	796	(5)
Stanley Cavell
`Reflections on Sculpture' 1967	801	(2)
William Tucker
Tim Scott
`The Work of Art as Object' 1970	803	(15)
Richard Wollheim
VII Institutions and Objections
Introduction	813	(5)
VIIA Objecthood and Reductivism	818	(50)
from `The Evolution of Art towards the Immaterial' 1959	818	(2)
Yves Klein
`Preface to Stripe Painting' 1959	820	(1)
Carl Andre
Pratt Institute Lecture 1959--60	820	(1)
Frank Stella
`Art as Art' 1962	821	(3)
Ad Reinhardt
`Specific Objects' 1965	824	(4)
Donald Judd
`Notes on Sculpture 1--3' 1966--7	828	(7)
Robert Morris
`Art and Objecthood' 1967	835	(11)
Michael Fried
`Paragraphs on Conceptual Art' 1967	846	(3)
Sol LeWitt
`Sentences on Conceptual Art' 1969	849	(2)
Sol LeWitt
Interview with Arthur R. Rose 1969	851	(1)
Robert Barry
`Art after Philosophy' 1969	852	(9)
Joseph Kosuth
Statement 1967	861	(1)
Daniel Buren
Olivier Mosset
Michel Parmentier
Niele Toroni
`Beware' 1969--70	861	(7)
Daniel Buren
VIIB Attitudes to Form	868	(45)
`Air Show' 1967	868	(5)
Terry Atkinson
Michael Baldwin
`Famous Last Words' 1967	873	(4)
Michelangelo Pistoletto
`A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects' 1968	877	(4)
Robert Smithson
`Notes on Sculpture 4: Beyond Objects' 1969	881	(4)
Robert Morris
Art & Language Editorial introduction to Art-Language 1969	885	(6)
`The Role of Language' 1969	891	(2)
Ian Burn
Mel Ramsden
Statements 1969--72	893	(1)
Lawrence Weiner
`Situational Aesthetics' 1969	894	(3)
Victor Burgin
Sponsor's Statement for `When Attitudes become Form' 1969	897	(1)
John A. Murphy
from Art Povera 1969	897	(3)
Germano Celant
Interview with Cindy Nemser	900	(3)
Eva Hesse
`Not Just a Few Are Called, But Everyone' 1972	903	(3)
Joseph Beuys
from `The Body as Language' 1974	906	(4)
Lea Vergine
Interview with Michele De Angelus 1980	910	(3)
Bruce Nauman
VIIC Political Aspects	913	(31)
`Appearance of the Supra-Sensorial' 1967/8	913	(2)
Helio Oiticica
Presentation to an Open Hearing of the Art Workers' Coalition 1969	915	(2)
Dan Graham
`Maintenance Art Manifesto' c.1969	917	(2)
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
`Interview with Ursula Meyer' 1969 and `Postface' 1973	919	(3)
Lucy Lippard
Artforum from `The Artist and Politics: a Symposium' 1970	922	(4)
Art Worker's Coalition Statement of Demands 1970	926	(1)
Valie Export `Woman's Art' 1972	927	(2)
`I Am Searching for Field Character' 1974	929	(1)
Joseph Beuys
Statement 1974	930	(1)
Hans Haacke
`To be bien pensant...or not to be. To be blind' 1975	931	(2)
Marcel Broodthaers
from `On Practice' 1975	933	(2)
Mel Ramsden
`The Art Market: Affluence and Degradation' 1975	935	(3)
Ian Burn
from `Socialist Formalism' 1976	938	(4)
Victor Burgin
Art & Language Editorial to Art-Language 1976	942	(2)
VIID Critical Revisions	944	(74)
from Of Grammatology 1967	944	(5)
Jacques Derrida
`What is an Author?' 1969	949	(4)
Michel Foucault
from `Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' 1970	953	(7)
Louis Althusser
from `Postscript - 1969' 1970	960	(5)
Thomas Kuhn
`From Work to Text' 1971	965	(5)
Roland Barthes
`Cultural Confinement' 1972	970	(1)
Robert Smithson
from Other Criteria 1968--72	971	(5)
Leo Steinberg
`A View of Modernism' 1972	976	(3)
Rosalind Krauss
`Ethic of Labour, Aesthetic of Play' 1973	979	(3)
Jean Baudrillard
from `Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' 1973/5	982	(7)
Laura Mulvey
A Lecture 1976	989	(5)
Michel Foucault
`Notes on the Index, Part I' 1976/7	994	(5)
Rosalind Krauss
from `Reflections on the Brecht-Lukacs Debate' 1977	999	(2)
Fredric Jameson
`Dominant, Residual and Emergent' 1977	1001	(4)
Raymond Williams
From Orientalism 1978	1005	(13)
Edward Said
VIII Ideas of the Postmodern
Introduction	1013	(5)
VIIIA The Critique of Originality	1018	(39)
`The Hyper-realism of Simulation' 1976	1018	(2)
Jean Baudrillard
`Being Different' 1977	1020	(5)
Pierre Bourdieu
from `The Allegorical Impulse' 1980	1025	(7)
Craig Owens
from `The Originality of the Avant-Garde' 1981	1032	(5)
Rosalind Krauss
from `Subversive Signs' 1982	1037	(1)
Hal Foster
Statement 1982	1038	(1)
Sherrie Levine
Art & Language `Letter to a Canadian Curator' 1982	1039	(2)
``Taking'' Pictures' 1982	1041	(1)
Barbara Kruger
`Nature and Culture' 1983	1042	(4)
Peter Halley
`The Deconstruction of Expression' 1984	1046	(5)
Fredric Jameson
`From Criticism to Complicity' 1986	1051	(3)
Haim Steinbach
Jeff Koons
Sherrie Levine
Philip Taaffe
Peter Halley
Ashley Bickerton
Interview with Catherine Francblin 1986	1054	(3)
Julia Kristeva
VIIIB Figures of Difference	1057	(60)
from `Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community' 1981	1057	(2)
Edward Said
`Re-Viewing Modernist Criticism' 1981	1059	(5)
Mary Kelly
`Art and Politics' 1982	1064	(1)
Ana Mendieta
`Public Projection' 1983	1065	(3)
Krzysztof Wodiczko
from `The Absence of Presence' 1984	1068	(4)
Victor Burgin
`Sexuality in the Field of Vision' 1984/5	1072	(4)
Jacqueline Rose
`The Work of Art and the Self-Reproduction of Art' 1984--6	1076	(5)
Niklas Luhmann
`Image and Word' and `Mute Poesy and Blind Painting' 1986	1081	(4)
W. J. T. Mitchell
`When was Modernism?' 1987/9	1085	(3)
Raymond Williams
Statements from an Interview with Donald Kuspit 1988	1088	(2)
Louise Bourgeois
`Private Irony and Liberal Hope' 1989	1090	(2)
Richard Rorty
`Who Claims Alterity?' 1989	1092	(4)
Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak
from The Yale Lecture 1990	1096	(3)
Richard Serra
`Dirty Toys: Mike Kelley Interviewed' 1991/2	1099	(3)
Mike Kelley
from B: interview with Jutta Koether 1991/4	1102	(3)
Martin Kippenberger
`Into the Future: Tourism, Language and Art' 1990/3	1105	(5)
Peter Wollen
On `hybridity' and `moving beyond' 1994	1110	(7)
Homi K. Bhadha
VIIIC The Condition of History	1117	(71)
from `Modernism and Capitalism' 1978	1117	(5)
Daniel Bell
Introduction to The Postmodern Condition 1979	1122	(1)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
`Modernity - An Incomplete Project' 1980	1123	(8)
Jurgen Habermas
`What is Postmodernism?' 1982	1131	(6)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
`Powers of Horror' 1980	1137	(2)
Julia Kristeva
from `...not about master-pieces but why there are so few of them' 1984	1139	(4)
Donald Judd
from `The Cultural-Historical Tragedy of the European Continent' 1986	1143	(4)
Joseph Beuys
Jannis Kounellis
Anselm Kiefer
Enzo Cucchi
from `Interview with Benjamin Buchloh' 1988	1147	(10)
Gerhard Richter
Notes 1990	1157	(1)
Gerhard Richter
from a discussion 1990	1158	(4)
Jeff Wall
`Which Side are You on, Cultural Worker?' 1990	1162	(1)
Diedrich Diederichsen
in conversation with Wilfred Dickhoff and Martin Prinzhorn 1991	1163	(7)
Albert Oehlen
`In the ``Heart of Darkness''' 1993	1170	(5)
Olu Oguibe
On installations 1994 and 2000	1175	(5)
Ilya Kabakov
Interview with Charles Merewether 1999	1180	(3)
Doris Salcedo
`MoMA2000: The Capitulation' 2000	1183	(5)
Franco Moretti
Bibliography	1188	(24)
Copyright acknowledgements	1212	(16)
Index	1228