Post Impressionism - Lewer

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Auteur(s) : Lewer

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 30/06/2005

Nombre de pages : 432

Expédition : 741

Dimensions : 24.4 x 17.0 x 2.3

ISBN : 1405111526

Résumé :
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 B?rger knit together primary sources and classic, canonical criticism.

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• 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 B?rger
  
• 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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Biographie:
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)....

Sommaire:
Series Editor's Preface.

Preface.

Acknowledgments..

Part I: Programs and Manifestos. .

Introduction.

1 Post-Impressionism (Roger Fry).

2 Why are we publishing a journal (Ver Sacrum editorial).

3 Notes of a Painter (Henri Matisse).

4 The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism (F.T. Marinetti).

5 Dada Manifesto (Hugo Ball).

6 The Work Ahead of Us (Vladimir Tatlin).

7 First Manifesto of Surrealism (Andr? Breton).

8 Introduction to 'New Objectivity': German Painting since Expressionism (Gustav Hartlaub).

Part II: Spirit and Subjectivity.

Introduction.

9 Gustave Moreau (Joris-Karl Huysmans).

10 Symbolism in Painting: Paul Gauguin (G.-Albert Aurier).

11 from Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style (Wilhelm Worringer).

12 from Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Wassily Kandinsky).

13 Mystery and Creation (Giorgio de Chirico).

14 From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Painterly Realism (Kazimir Malevich).

15 Neo-Plasticism: The General Principle of Plastic Equivalence (Piet Mondrian).

Part III: Mass Culture and Modernity.

Introduction.

16 The Mass Ornament (Siegfried Kracauer).

17 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Walter Benjamin).

18 Avant-Garde and Kitsch (Clement Greenberg).

19 Modernism in the Work of Art (Victor Burgin).

20 The Hidden Dialectic: Avantgarde - Technology - Mass Culture (Andreas Huyssen).

Part IV: Politics and the Avant-Garde.

Introduction.

21 The Politics of the Avant-Garde (Raymond Williams).

22 from Theory of the Avant-Garde (Peter B?rger).

23 Jugglers' Fair Beneath the Gallows (Ernst Bloch).

24 Towards a Free Revolutionary Art (Andr? Breton, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky).

25 The Birth of Socialist Realism from the Spirit of the Russian Avant-Garde (Boris Groys).

Part V: Identity and Appropriation.

Introduction.

26 Going Native (Abigail Solomon-Godeau).

27 Virility and Domination in 20th-Century Vanguard Painting (Carol Duncan).

28 from Men's Work? Masculinity and Modernism (Lisa Tickner).

29 What the Papers Say: Politics and Ideology in Picasso's Collages of 1912 (David Cottington).

30 Dada as 'Buffoonery and Requiem At the Same Time' (Hanne Bergius).

31 Surrealism: Fetishism's Job (Dawn Ades).

Index.