Post-Impressionism to World War II

Informationen zum Autor Debbie Lewer is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Glasgow. She has published essays in Dada Zurich: A Clown's Game from Nothing (edited by B. Pichon and K. Rihs, 1996) and Printed Matters: Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture in the Modern Period , (edited by M. Gee and T. Kirk, 2000). Klappentext Post-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of writings by artists, critics, and historians. The texts include primary sources from the 1880s to the eve of war in the late 1930s, knitted together with classic analyses from critics such as Benjamin, Greenberg, and Bürger. The volume also includes more recent critical interventions from a range of methodological perspectives, both well-known and less familiar. Introductory essays explore the key themes raised by the texts. The result is a vivid chronicle of avant-garde practice in Europe during an especially creative, and volatile, period of history. Zusammenfassung Post-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of the best art history writings of the Post-Impressionist period. Several key essays by critics including Benjamin! Greenberg and Burger knit together primary sources and classic! "canonical" criticism.

Product details

• Authors: Lewer, D Lewer, Debbie Lewer, Debbie (University of Glasgow) Lewer
• Assisted by: Debbie Lewer (Editor), Debbie (University of Glasgow) Lewer (Editor), Lewer Debbie (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.05.2005
• EAN: 9781405111522
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-1152-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Blackwell Anthologies in Art History S.; Blackwell Anthologies in Art H; Blackwell Anthologies in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, Impressionism, Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism