Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology

Table of contents

• Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology *
• Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology *
• Contents *
• Introduction *
• Introductory Texts *
• 1 - Modernist Painting *
• 2 - Historical Interpretation *
• Section One - Modern Life, Modernité and Modernism *
• 3 - The Salon of 1846: on the Heroism of Modern Life *
• 4 - The Salon of 1859: the Modern Public and Photography *
• 5 - The Painter of Modern Life *
• 6 - Edouard Manet *
• 7 - The Impressionists and Edouard Manet *
• 8 'L'Exposition Des Indépendants' in 1880 *
• 9 - From Gauguin and Van Gogh to Classicism *
• References 55
• 10 - Cézanne *
• Section Two - The Development of Modernism *
• 11 - The Aesthetic Hypothesis *
• 12 - The Debt to Cézanne *
• 13 - An Essay in Aesthetics *
• 14 - The French Post-Impressionists *
• 15 'American-Type' Painting *
• 16 - Collage *
• 17 - Master Léger *
• 18 - Three American Painters *
• Reference 119
• 19 - What is Revolutionary Art? *
• 20 - Barnett Newman *
• References 132
• Section Three - Abstraction *
• 21 - From the Easel to the Machine *
• 22 - On Non-Objective Painting *
• 23 - The Beauty of Non-Objectivity *
• 24 - Illusion and Visual Deadlock *
• References 156
• Section Four - Expressionism *
• 25 - Abstraction and Empathy *
• References 164
• 26 - Expressionism *
• References 169
• 27 - Abstraction and Mysticism *
• 28 - Expression and Communication *
• References 188
• 29 - Art and Inquiry *
• Section Five - Art and Society *
• 30 - The Development of Modern Art *
• 31 - Literature and Revolution *
• 32 - The Author as Producer *
• 33 - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction *
• 34 - Poetic Evidence *
• 35 - Popularity and Realism *
• 36 - The Sociological Approach: the Concept of Ideology in the History of Art *
• 37 - Léger *
• 38 - Art History and Class Struggle *
• References 248
• 39 - On the Social History of Art *
• 40 - Preliminaries to a Possible Treatment of Olympia in 1865 *
• References 273
• 41 - The Laundress in Late Nineteeth-Century French Culture: Imagery, Ideology and Edgar Degas *
• 42 - Les Données Bretonnantes: la Prairie de la Représentation *
• References 302
• Index A: Names *
• Index B: Concepts and Terms of Reference Employed in Critical Writing on Art of the Period *

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