Post-Impressionism to World War II (Blackwell Anthologies in Art History)
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
EAN (European Article Number): 9781405111522
Number of Items: 1
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.034
Publication Date: 2005-08-05
Reading Level: 432
Description: 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 Bürger knit together primary sources and classic, “canonical” criticism.
Collects the most important writings on art history from Post-Impressionism to the mid-20th century, covering both canonical and contemporary perspectives
Offers a chronicle of avant-garde practice during an especially creative, if volatile, period of history
Features several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger
Includes recent critical interventions from a range of methodological perspectives – both well-known and less familiar
Organizes material thematically, and features introductory essays to each of the five sections
Provides a valuable, stimulating resource for students and teachers alike and offers new ways to think about and teach this important period in art history.
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Review Summary: A textbook, NO pictures!
Date: 2007-12-10
Details: This is a black-and-white textbook WITHOUT illustrations - a handbook for serious art students and teachers, which is a collection by many authors providing an artist's point of view by, or analytical materials on many artists - their art's programs and manifestos, spirit and subjectivity, relation to mass culture and modernity, politics and avant-garde, identity and appropriation.
CONTENTS:
Series Editor's Preface viii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xii
Part I: Programs and Manifestos
Introduction 1
1 Post-Impressionism by Roger Fry 13
2 Why Are We Publishing a Journal? by Ver Sacrum editorial 18
3 Notes of a Painter by Henri Matisse 21
4 The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism by F. T Marinetti 28
5 Dada Manifesto by Hugo Ball 33
6 The Work Ahead of Us by Vladimir Tatlin 35
7 First Manifesto of Surrealism by André Breton 36
8 Introduction to "New Objectivity": German Painting since Expressionism by Gustav Hartlaub 50
Part II: Spirit and Subjectivity
Introduction 53
9 Gustave Moreau by Joris-Karl Huysmans 69
10 Symbolism in Painting: Paul Gauguin by G. -Albert Aurier 71
11 From Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style by Wilhelm Worringer 79
12 From On the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky 93
13 Mystery and Creation by Giorgio de Chirico 128
14 From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Painterly Realism by Kazimir Malevich 130
15 Neo-Plasticism: The General Principle of Plastic Equivalence by Piet Mondrian 146
Part III: Mass Culture and Modernity
Introduction 155
16 The Mass Ornament by Siegfried Kracauer 165
17 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 174 Walter Benjamin
18 Avant-Garde and Kitsch by Clement Greenberg 188
19 Modernism in the Work of Art by Victor Burgin 201
20 The Hidden Dialectic: Avantgarde-Technology-Mass Culture by Andreas Huyssen 218
Part IV: Politics and the Avant-Garde
Introduction 231
21 The Politics of the Avant-Garde by Raymond Williams 240
22 From Theory of the Avant-Garde by Peter Burger 253
23 Jugglers' Fair Beneath the Gallows by Ernst Bloch 265
24 Towards a Free Revolutionary Art by André Breton, Diego Rivera, and Leon Trotsky 270
25 The Birth of Socialist Realism from the Spirit of the Russian Avant-Garde by Boris Groys 274
Part V: Identity and Appropriation
Introduction 297
26 Going Native by Abigail Solomon-Godeau 304
27 Virility and Domination in Early Twentieth-Century Vanguard Painting by Carol Duncan 320
28 Men's Work? Masculinity and Modernism by Lisa Tickner 337
29 What the Papers Say: Politics and Ideology in Picasso's Collages of 1912 by David Cottington 349
30 Dada as "Buffoonery and Requiem at the Same Time" by Hanne Bergius 366
31 Surrealism: Fetishism's Job by Dawn Ades 381
Index 400
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