Theories of Modern Art

by Chipp, Herschel B.

• ISBN13: 9780520052567
• ISBN10: 0520052560
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1984-07-01
• Publisher: Ingram Publisher Services, Inc.

Summary

Gathers interviews, articles, letters, and manifestos dealing with Postimpressionism, symbolism, fauvism, Expressionism, and cubism

Table of Contents

General Introduction

Post-Impressionism: Individual Paths to Construction and Expression Introduction: The Letters of Ceacute;zanne Paul Ceacute;zanne: Excerpts from the Letters Introduction: The Lettters of van Gogh Vincent van Gogh: Excerpts from the Letters

Symbolism And Other Subjectivist Tendencies: Form and the Evocation of Feeling Introduction: Gauguin and Other Subjectivists Paul Gauguin: Synthetist Theories Gauguin: On His Paintings Gauguin: On Primitivism Symbolist Theories

Fauvism And Expressionism: The Creative Intuition Introduction

Cubism: Form as Expresssion Introduction

Futurism: Dynamism as the Expression of the Modern World Introductoin

Neoplasticism And Constructivism: Abstract and Nonobjective Art Introduction

Dada, Surrealism, Andscuola Metafisica: The Irrational and the Dream Introduction: Dada and Surrealsism Dada Surrealism Introduction:Scuola Metafisica

Art And Politics: The Artist and the Social Order Introduction

Contemporary Art: The Autonomy of the Work of Art

Introduction: The Americans Introduction: The Europeans

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

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