Read more
Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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 fruits 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. The features that made the first edition so successful have been retained: The volume provides comprehensive representation of the theories which underpinned developments in the visual arts during the twentieth century. As well as writings by artists, the anthology includes texts by critics, philosophers, politicians, and literary figures. The content is clearly structured into eight broadly chronological sections, starting with the legacy of symbolism and concluding with contemporary debates about the postmodern. The editors provide individual introductions to each of the 371 anthologized texts. Material new to this expanded edition includes texts on African art, on the Bauhaus and on the re-emergent avant-gardes of the period after the Second World War. Post-modernist debates are amplified by texts on gender, on installation and performance art, and on the increasing globalization of culture. Zusammenfassung * 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements. A Note on the Presentation and Editing of Texts. General Introduction. Part I: The Legacy of Symbolism. Introduction. 1. Classicism and Originality. Paul Signac: from Eugène Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism 1899. Paul Gauguin: letter to Fontainas 1899. Sigmund Freud: from 'On Dreams' 1901. Otto Weininger: from Sex and Character 1903. Max Liebermann: 'Imagination in Painting' 1904. Paul Cézanne: letters to Emile Bernard 1904-06. Rainer Maria Rilke: from Letters on Cézanne 1907. Maurice Denis (intro. Roger Fry): 'Cézanne' 1907. Maurice Denis: 'From Gauguin and Van Gogh to Neo-Classicism' 1909. Julius Meier-Graefe: 'The Mediums of Art, Past and Present' 1904. Giorgio de Chirico: 'Mystery and Creation' 1913. 2. Expression and the Primitive. August Endell: 'The Beauty of Form and Decorative Art' 1897-98. Albert Pinkham Ryder: 'Paragraphs from the Studio of a Recluse' 1905. André Derain: letters to Vlaminck c.1905-1909. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: programme of Die Brücke 1906. Wilhelm Worringer: from Abstraction and Empathy 1908. Henri Matisse: 'Notes of a Painter' 1908. Roger Fry: 'An Essay in Aesthetics' 1909. Wassily Kandinsky: from Concerning the Spiritual in Art 1911. Wassily Kandinsky: The Cologne Lecture 1914. Franz Marc: 'The "Savages" of Germany' and 'Two Pictures' 1912. August Macke: 'Masks' 1912. Emil Nolde: 'On Primitive Art' 1912. Oscar Kokoschka: 'On the Nature of Visions' 1912. Alexander Shevchenko: 'Neo-Primitivism' 1913. Benedetto Croce: 'What is Art?' 1913. Clive Bell: 'The Aesthetic Hypothesis' 1914. Carl Einstein: 'Negro Sculpture' 1915. Hermann Bahr: from Expressionism 191...
