Title: Art in theory, 1900-2000 : an anthology of changing ideas /
Authors: Harrison, Charles, 1942-2009; Wood, Paul.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Art, Modern Philosophy
Abstract: "Since it was first published in 1992, this book has become one of the leading anthologies of art theoretical texts in the English-speaking world. This expanded edition includes the fruit of recent research, involving a considerable amount of newly translated material from the entire period, together with additional texts from the last decades of the twentieth century"--Back cover.
Contents: Classicism and originality -- Expression and the primitive -- Modernity -- Cubism -- Neo-classicism and the call to order -- Dissent and disorder -- Abstraction and form -- Utility and construction -- The modern as ideal -- Realism as figuration -- Realism as critique -- Modernism as critique -- The American avant-garde -- Individualism in Europe -- Art and society -- Art and modern life -- Modernist art -- Objecthood and reductivism -- Attitudes to form -- Political aspects -- Critical revisions -- The critique of originality -- Figures of difference -- The condition of history.