Fine Art Books: Art in Theory 1900-2000 - An Anthology of Changing Ideas (9780631227083) By Charles Harrison, Paul J. Wood

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Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas

  • Title: Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
  • Author: Charles Harrison, Paul J. Wood
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Published Date: October 2002
  • ISBN: 978-0-631-22708-3
  • Pages: 1288
  • Format: Paperback
  • Price:   United Kingdom   USA
The Book
  • Popular anthology of 20th century art theoretical texts
  • Now expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s.
  • Includes writings by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures
  • Provide contextual introductions to 340 texts
The Author

Charles Harrison - Professor of History and Theory of Art and Staff Tutor in Arts at the Open University. Author of numerous books on modern art criticism and art theory.

Paul Wood - Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University. Co-editor, with Charles Harrison and Jason Gaiger, of Art in Theory 1648–1815 and Art in Theory 1815–1900

Inside the Book
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • A Note on the Presentation and Editing of Texts
  • General Introduction
  • The Legacy of Symbolism

  • Classicism and Originality
  • Expression and the Primitive
  • The Idea of the Modern World

  • Modernity
  • Cubism
  • Neo-Classicism and the Call to Order
  • Dissent and Disorder
  • Abstraction and Form
  • Utility and Construction
  • Freedom, Responsibility and Power

  • The Modern as Ideal
  • Realism as Figuration
  • Realism as Critique
  • Modernism as Critique
  • The Individual and the Social

  • The American Avant-Garde
  • Individualism in Europe
  • The Moment of Modernism

  • Art and Modern Life
  • Modernist Art
  • Institutions and Objections

  • Objecthood and Reductivism
  • Attitudes to Form
  • Political Aspects
  • Critical Revisions
  • Ideas of the Postmodern

  • The Critique of Originality
  • Figures of Difference
  • The Condition of History
  • Bibliography
  • Copyright Acknowledgements
  • Index

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