ISBN:
0300077440
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 336 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Year of publication:
1999
Keywords:
Kunstgeschichtsschreibung
Abstract:
This volume presents eighty-nine influential texts that have played a significant role in shaping modern judgments and values about art. Emphasizing the debates and ideological assumptions around the Western canon of art, the book ranges through art history from Pliny the Elder to current issues of gender, post-colonialism, and museum policy. A general introduction to the book provides a survey of recent debates on the canon of Western art. The source texts and critical writings of the volume are then organized around six art history topics: academies, museums, and canons of art; the changing status of the artist; gender and art; the challenge of the avant-garde; views of difference; and contemporary cultures of display. The source texts, each prefaced by a short introduction with information about the author and guidelines for reading the text, include seminal writings by Vasari, Le Brun, and Baudelaire, among many others, as well as examples of different kinds of literature on art, a contract, a biography, an academic discourse. And the critical writings for each section of the book offer a variety of perspectives on art and revisions of art history.
Abstract:
Preface Introduction Paul Wood Part One: Expression and Expressionism Chapter 1 Expressionism and the crisis of subjectivity Jason Gaiger Chapter 2 Gender and the Fauves: flirting with ĺwild beasts̷ Gill Perry Chapter 3 Orientalism, modernism and indigenous identity Roger Benjamin Chapter 4 Bonnard and Matisse: expression and emotion Charles Harrison Part Two: Aspects of Cubism Chapter 5 Approaches to Cubism Jason Gaiger Chapter 6 Dusty mannequins: modern art and primitivism Niru Ratnam Chapter 7 Cubist Collage Steve Edwards Part Three: The Emergence of Abstraction Chapter 8 The idea of an abstract art Paul Wood Chapter 9 ĺEnglish̷ abstraction: Nicholson, Hepworth and Moore in the 1930s Emma Barker Part Four: The Critical Avant-Gardes Chapter 10 Art, love and social emancipation: on the concept ĺavant-garde̷ and the interwar avant-gardes Gail Day Chapter 11 Narrating the Dada game plan Martin Gaughan Chapter 12 Soviet Constructivism Christina Lodder Chapter 13 ĺProfane illumination̷: photography and photomontage in the USSR and Germany Steve Edwards Chapter 14 Surrealism 1924-1929 Fionna Barber Further reading Index
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