Twentieth Century Theories of Art

Twentieth Century Theories of Art
Author: James Matheson Thompson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 572
Release: 1990
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780886291112

Includes selections from major writers on various approaches to art theory, for example Freud, Jung, Marx, Heidegger.

Twentieth Century Theories of Art

Twentieth Century Theories of Art
Author: James M. Thompson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 566
Release: 1990-01-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0773596054

This ambitious volume provides a general introduction to the major approaches in this century to art theory and criticism, from the Expression Theory to Poststructuralism. For readers with little or no background, clearly written introductions are provided. The writings collected here are by leaders in each area such as Freud, Barthes, Heidegger and Derrida. The collection is valuable for students of art history, literature and philosophy.

Art of the Avant-gardes

Art of the Avant-gardes
Author: Professor and Head of Art History Steve Edwards
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300102307

02 This gorgeous book presents and discusses the oils, works on paper, and other artistic creations of William Holman Hunt, one of the three major artistic talents of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. This gorgeous book presents and discusses the oils, works on paper, and other artistic creations of William Holman Hunt, one of the three major artistic talents of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.

Twentieth-Century American Art

Twentieth-Century American Art
Author: Erika Doss
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2002-04-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0191587745

Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth century. From the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the 2000 Whitney Biennial, a rapid succession of art movements and different styles reflected the extreme changes in American culture and society, as well as America's position within the international art world. This exciting new look at twentieth century American art explores the relationships between American art, museums, and audiences in the century that came to be called the 'American century'. Extending beyond New York, it covers the emergence of Feminist art in Los Angeles in the 1970s; the Black art movement; the expansion of galleries and art schools; and the highly political public controversies surrounding arts funding. All the key movements are fully discussed, including early American Modernism, the New Negro movement, Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Neo-Expressionism.

Art of the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Art of the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Author: Loredana Parmesani
Publisher: Skira - Berenice
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788857214085

The new, updated edition of the Skira best-seller on twentieth-century art. This handy manual is for those who wish to understand what art was in the last century and what it represents today. The book, whose structure is essential and synthetic, aims to divulge the pleasure of art to those who have never delved beyond its surface, and above all to describe how it has become spectacle and performance in recent years. Following an analysis of the theories and poetics that tempestuously traversed the historical avant-gardes and the neo-avant-gardes of the twentieth century and contributed to their extraordinary vitality, the author focuses on and explains the principal artistic phenomena that, starting in 1980, marked the period defined as post-modern, which was characterised by performance and a system of economic-financial art. The last chapter describes the arrival of postmodern up to its possible decline, marked by the social events of 2007 that, by abandoning the special effects of immateriality, has headed in a direction that is more tangible, worldly and concrete.

Theories of Modern Art

Theories of Modern Art
Author: Herschel Browning Chipp
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 692
Release: 1968
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520014503

Now is the Time

Now is the Time
Author: Jelle Bouwhuis
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Anthology of essays about seven pressing social and art-specific themes that encompass the full scope of the force-field of the visual arts. Renowned international theorists and promising young art critics and curators share their visions on a range of issues in accessible essays: What is the impact of 9/11 on our visual culture and the visual arts? What role does religion play in polarization? What are the consequences of ongoing globalization for the visual arts? How can we explain the revival of interest in canons and what function do they attribute to art? These socially engaged themes are alternated with topics that are traditionally more rooted in art, such as the return of Romanticism, the relative novelty of new media in the 'post-medium' era, and the utopian ideals of design. With such a varied selection of subjects and authors, the book builds a bridge between art and theory as well as between art and society, at a level attuned to academic discourse yet at the same time accessible for a wide-ranging public with an interest in art.

From Diversion to Subversion

From Diversion to Subversion
Author: David Getsy
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780271037035

"Examines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

Blind Spots

Blind Spots
Author: Frederic J. Schwartz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300108293

In four extended case studies, the book traces the way in which central concepts of the aesthetics later termed "Frankfurt School" were deeply rooted in contemporary developments in painting, photography, architecture and films as well as psychology, advertising and the discipline of art history as it was practised by figures such as Heinrich Wolfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Wilhelm Pinder and Hans Sedlmayr. By studying the emergence and importance of the concepts of 'fashion', 'distraction', 'non-simultaneity' and 'mimesis' in the work of the critical theorists, the book traces the shifting intersection between the history of art and the Frankfurt School and seeks to uncover its specific logic.

Primitivism and Twentieth-century Art

Primitivism and Twentieth-century Art
Author: Jack D. Flam
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520212787

"This is a much needed, important collection-a goldmine of sources for scholars and students. The texts articulate the key Primitivist aesthetic discourses of the period, offering crucial insight into the complex and always changing nexus between culture, politics, and representation. Because of the breadth of the materials covered and the controversies they raise, this anthology is one of the all too rare volumes that not only will provide reference materials for years to come but also will feature centrally in classroom discussions."--Suzanne Preston Blier, author of African Vodun: Art, Psychology, and Power "For almost a century art historians have fretted about the notion of primitivism in the arts. This comprehensive-in both senses of the word-anthology is a peerless source of the history of responses to works categorized as 'primitive.' In its range, the book touches upon all the troubling questions-formal, anthropological, political, historical-that have bedeviled the study of the arts of Oceania, Africa, and North and South America, and provides the grounds, at last, for intelligent pursuit of keener distinctions. I regard this book as a superb contribution to the study of Modern art; in fact, indispensable."--Dore Ashton, author of Noguchi East and West "An extraordinarily useful and complete collection of primary documents, many translated for the first time into English, and almost all unlikely to be encountered elsewhere without serious effort. Its five sections, each with a lively and scholarly introduction, reveal the diverse views of artists and writers on primitive art from Matisse, Picasso, and Fry to many far less known and sometimes surprising figures. The book also uncovers the politics and aesthetics of the major museum exhibitions that gained acceptance for art that had been both reviled and mythologized. Recent texts included are all germane. This book will be invaluable for any college course on the topic."--Shelly Errington, author of The Death of Authentic Primitive Art and Other Tales of Progress "An exceptionally valuable anthology of seventy documents--most heretofore unavailable in English--on the ongoing controversies surrounding Primitivism and Modern art. Insightfully chosen and annotated, the collection is brilliantly introduced by Jack Flam's essay on the historical progression, contexts, and cultural complexities of more than one hundred years' ideas about Primitivism. Rich, timely, illuminating."--Herbert M. Cole, author of Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa