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Art in modern culture : an anthology of critical texts / edited by Francis Frascina and Jonathan Harris.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Phaidon Press, in association with the Open University, 1992.Description: 341 p. : ill ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780714828404
  • 0714828408
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Contents:
Modernity and self-identity : self and society in the late modern age / Anthony Giddens
When was modernism? / Raymond Williams
Vision, voice and power : feminist art history and Marxism / Griselda Pollock
Politics and the intelligentsia / Noam Chomsky
The painting of modern life / Timothy J. Clark
On the problem of the autonomy of art in bourgeois society / Peter Bürger
Aesthetics and politics / Fredric Jameson
Art, autonomy and mass culture / Theodor Adorno
On non-objective painting / Bertolt Brecht
Abstract expressionism, weapon of the cold war / Eva Cockcroft
Capitalism, modernism and postmodernism / Terry Eagleton
Preliminaries to a possible treatment of 'Olympia' in 1865 / Timothy J. Clark
Modernity and the spaces of femininity / Griselda Pollock
Orientalism / Edward Said
Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti / Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen
Mapping / Lucy R. Lippard
The love of art / Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Darbel
Defining 'Impressionism' and the 'impression' / Richard Shiff
The intransigent artist, or how the Impressionists got their name / Stephen F. Eisenman
The 'primitive' unconscious of modern art / Hal Foster
In the name of Picasso / Rosalind Krauss
Figures of authority, ciphers of regression / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
The new adventures of the avant-garde in America / Serge Guilbaut
Greenberg and the group : a retrospective view / Barbara M. Reise
Minimalism and the rhetoric of power / Anna C. Chave
The Museum of Modern Art : the past's future / Alan Wallach
The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin
Modernist painting / Clement Greenberg
'The works of art themselves'? / Raymond Williams
Literalism and abstraction / Philip Leider
Painting : the task of mourning / Yve-Alain Bois
Postmodernism and the 'politics' of style / Dick Hebdige
Summary: This anthology covers the whole range of issues on which critics and art historians have focused. While a few classic texts from the 1930s to 1960s are included, the majority of the texts are by contemporary authors engaged in current debate, and will provide an invaluable resource.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modernity and self-identity : self and society in the late modern age / Anthony Giddens

When was modernism? / Raymond Williams

Vision, voice and power : feminist art history and Marxism / Griselda Pollock

Politics and the intelligentsia / Noam Chomsky

The painting of modern life / Timothy J. Clark

On the problem of the autonomy of art in bourgeois society / Peter Bürger

Aesthetics and politics / Fredric Jameson

Art, autonomy and mass culture / Theodor Adorno

On non-objective painting / Bertolt Brecht

Abstract expressionism, weapon of the cold war / Eva Cockcroft

Capitalism, modernism and postmodernism / Terry Eagleton

Preliminaries to a possible treatment of 'Olympia' in 1865 / Timothy J. Clark

Modernity and the spaces of femininity / Griselda Pollock

Orientalism / Edward Said

Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti / Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen

Mapping / Lucy R. Lippard

The love of art / Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Darbel

Defining 'Impressionism' and the 'impression' / Richard Shiff

The intransigent artist, or how the Impressionists got their name / Stephen F. Eisenman

The 'primitive' unconscious of modern art / Hal Foster

In the name of Picasso / Rosalind Krauss

Figures of authority, ciphers of regression / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh

The new adventures of the avant-garde in America / Serge Guilbaut

Greenberg and the group : a retrospective view / Barbara M. Reise

Minimalism and the rhetoric of power / Anna C. Chave

The Museum of Modern Art : the past's future / Alan Wallach

The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin

Modernist painting / Clement Greenberg

'The works of art themselves'? / Raymond Williams

Literalism and abstraction / Philip Leider

Painting : the task of mourning / Yve-Alain Bois

Postmodernism and the 'politics' of style / Dick Hebdige

This anthology covers the whole range of issues on which critics and art historians have focused. While a few classic texts from the 1930s to 1960s are included, the majority of the texts are by contemporary authors engaged in current debate, and will provide an invaluable resource.