Main entry:
Chipp, Herschel Browning.
Title & Author:
Theories of modern art : a source book by artists and critics / Herschel B. Chipp [with] contributions by Peter Selz and Joshua C. Taylor.
Publication:
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1968.
Description:
xv, 664 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Series:
California studies in the history of art
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-651) and index.
Postimpressionism: individual paths to construction and expression : Introduction: the letters of Cezanne -- Paul Cezanne: excerpts from the letters : Painting from nature ; Work before theory ; The artist’s role ; “Let us work...” ; Discussion painting ; Contact with nature ; On conception and technique ; “The cylinder, the sphere, the cone...” ; The study of nature ; On self-confidence ; The old masters ; Abstraction ; Intensity of nature ; On technical questions ; Museums ; Nature the basis of his art -- Introduction: the letters of van Gogh -- Vincent van Gogh: Excerpts from the letters : The Potato Eaters, 1885 ; Tropical color ; Imagination ; My brush stoke has no system ; Black and white are colors ; Complementary color ; The Starry Night, 1888 ; Simultaneous contrast of colors ; Simultaneous contrasts of lines and forms ; Expressive color ; Nature and art ; Portraiture of the soul ; The Night Cafe, 1888 ; Color of the south ; Suggestive color ; Paint from the model ; Japanese artists live in nature ; The Yellow House, 1888 ; I cannot work without a model ; The Bedroom, 1888 ; Strong southern color ; Working from memory ; Treatment of the subject ; Biblical subjects ; Paint your garden as it is ; On Monticelli, Gauguin -- Symbolism and other subjectivist tendencies: form and the evocation of feeling : Introduction: Gauguin and other subjectivists -- Paul Gauguin: synthetist theories : Feeling and thought ; Abstraction ; Shadows ; Notes synthetiques ; Decoration ; The impressionists ; Memory ; Color ; Puvis de Chavannes -- Gauguin: on his paintings : Self-portrait, Les Misérables, 1888 ; Manao Tupapau (The Spirit of the Dead Watching), 1892 ; Whence Do We Come? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1898 ; Andre Fontainas, review of Gauguin’s exhibition and Whence Do We Come? ; Gauguin’s letter in response to Fontainas’s article -- Gauguin: on primitivism : Buffalo Bill at the World’s Fair ; Javanese village at the World’s Fair ; Longing for the tropics ; An exchange of letters between August Strindberg and Gauguin ; Primitivism ; Marquesan art ; Life of a savage -- Symbolist theories : G-Albert Aurier : Essay on a New Method of Criticism ; Symbolism in painting: Paul Gauguin ; The symbolist painters. Maurice Denis : Definition of Neotraditionism ; The Influence of Paul Gauguin ; Synthetism ; Subjective and objective deformation ; Ferdinand Hodler : Parallelism. James Ensor : The beach at Ostende ; From the preface to his collected writings ; From a speech delivered at a banquet ; From a speech delivered at his exhibition. Edvard Munch : Art and nature. Odilon Redon : Suggestive art ; Introduction to a catalogue. Henry Van de Velde : Memoirs: 1891-1901 -- Fauvism and expressionism: The creative intuition : Introduction by Peter Selz -- Fauvism : Henri Rousseau : Letter to the art critic Andre Dupont explaining The Dream, 1910 ; Inscription for The Dream, 1910. Henri Matisse : Notes of a Painter ; Exactitude is Not Truth ; Facility in painting ; Testimonial. Maurice Vlaminck, Prefatory Letter -- Expressionism : Emil Nolde : Jahre der Kampfe. Wassily Kandinsky : The Effect of Color ; On the Problem of Form. Oskar Kokoschka : On the Nature of Visions. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : Chronik der Brucke. Franz Marc : How does a horse see the world? ; Aphorisms, 1914-1915 ; Letter. Paul Klee : Creative Credo. Max Beckmann : On My Painting -- Cubism: form as expression : Introduction : Andre Salmon : Anecdotal History of Cubism. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger : Cubism. Guillaume Apollinaire : The Beginnings of Cubism ; The Cubist Painters. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler : The Rise of Cubism ; Georges Braque : Statement ; Thoughts and Reflections on Art ; Observations on Method. Pablo Picasso : Statement ; On Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon ; Conversation ; An idea is a beginning point and more.... ; Found objects. Juan Gris : Response to a questionnaire on his art ; Response to a questionnaire on Cubism. Fernand Leger : The Aesthetic of the Machine ; A New Realism–The Object -- Futurism: dynamism as the expression of the modern world : Introduction by Joshua C. Taylor : F. T. Marinetti : The foundation and manifesto of futurism ; Futurist painting: technical manifesto ; The exhibitors to the public. Umberto Boccioni : Technical manifesto of futurist sculpture. Carlo Carra : From Cezanne to us, the futurists -- Neo-plasticism and constructivism : Abstract and nonobjective art: Introduction : Robert Delaunay : Letter to August Macke, 1912 ; Letter to Wassily Kandinsky, 1912 ; Light. Stanton McDonald wright : Statement on synchromism. Piet Mondrian : Natural reality and abstract reality. Theo van Doesburg : Introduction to volume II of De Stijil. Naum Gabo : The realistic manifesto ; Sculpture: craving and construction in space. Kasimir Malevich : Introduction to the theory of the additional element in painting ; Supermatism ; Wassily Kandinsky : Concrete art. Piet Mondrian : Plastic art and pure plastic art (figurative art and non-figurative) ; Statement ; Constantin Brancusi : Aphorisms -- Dada, surrealism and scuola metafisica: the irrational and the dream : Introduction: dada and surrealism -- Dada : Dada slogans : Berlin. Richard Huelsenbeck : En Avant Dada: A history of Dadaism. Kurt Schwitters : Merz. Tristian Tzara : Lecture on dada. Jean Arp : Abstract art, concrete art. Marcel Duchamp : Painting...at the service of the mind. Hannah Hoch : Dada photo montage -- Surrealism : Giorgio de Chirico : Mediations of a painter ; Mystery and creation. Andre Breton : Surrealism and painting ; What is surrealism?. Salvador Dali : The object as revealed in surrealist experiment ; Max Ernst : What is the mechanism of collage ; On frottage. Joan Miro : From an interview with Georges Duthuit ; From an interview with James Johnson sweeney. Andre Masson : Painting is a wager ; A crisis of the imaginary. Marc Chagall : From an interview by James Johnson Sweeney. Matta : On emotion -- Introduction: Scuola Metafisica by Joshua C. Taylor : Giorgio de Cherico : Zeus the explorer ; On metaphysical art ; Carlo Carra : The quadrant of the spirit -- Art and politics: the artist and the social order : Introduction by Peter Selz : Manifesto issued by the syndicate of technical workers ; Painters, and sculptors, Mexico city, 1922 ; Leon Trotsky: literature and revolution ; Stuart Davis : The artist today. Hogler Cahill : The federal art project. Adolf Hitler : Speech and inaugurating the great exhibition of German art, 1937. Andre Breton and Leon Trotsky : Manifesto: towards a free revolutionary art ; Pablo Picasso : Statement about the artist as a political being ; Conversation on Guernica as recorded by Jerome Seckler ; Robert Motherwell and Harold Rosenberg : The question of what will emerge is left open ; Vladimir Kemenov : Aspects of two cultures ; Congressman George A. Dondero : Modern art shackled to communism ; Guilio Carol Argan : The reason for the group -- Contemporary art: the autonomy of the work of art : Introduction: the Americans : Robert Henri : On individuality of ideas and freedom of expression. Staurt Davis : Is there an American Art ; On the American scene ; Robert Henri’s school ; The armory show ; On nature and abstraction. Marsden Hartley : Art – and the personal life ; Notes, 1919 – 1936. John Marin : Conversation with Dorothy Norman. Arshile Gorky : Cubism and space ; Description of his mural aviation, 1936 ; Notes on his painting series garden in Sochi, 1941. Hans Hofmann : Excerpts from his teaching. Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko : Statement. Robert Motherwell : Statement. Jackson pollock : Three statements, 1944-1951 ; Mark Rothko : The romantics were prompted. Barnet Newman : Introduction to an exhibition ; The ideo-graphic picture ; The first man was an artist ; The sublime is now. Herbert Ferber : On sculpture. Willem Dekooning : The renaissance and order. Symposium: what abstract art means to me, (Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell). Artist’s session, New York, 1951. Saul Baizerman : Statement. Theodore Roszak : Statement. Harold Rosenberg : The American action painters. Elaine De Kooning : Subject: what, how or who. Louis Finkelstein : New look: abstract-Impressionism. John Ferren : Epitaph for an Avant-Garde ; Clyfford still : Statement ; Richard Stankiewicz : Statement. David Smith : Notes on my work ; Clement Greenberg : Abstract, representational, and so forth ; Sidney Geist : The private myth ; Sculpture and other trouble ; Hilton Kramer : On drawing as a crucible of style ; Style and sensibility: David Smith. Claes Oldenburg : Discussion ; George Rickey : Observation and reflections -- Introduction: The Europeans : Henry Moore : The sculptor speaks. Alberto Giacometti : Letter. Constant : Our own desires build the revolution. Michel Tapie : A new beyond. Etienne Hajdu : On Bas-Relief. Hans Uhlmann : Statement. Jean Dubuffet : Empreintes. Eduardo Paolozzi : The metamorphosis of ordinary things. Interview ; Francis Bacon : Statements, 1952-1955 ; Interview. Davide Boriani : Statement ; Phillip king : Statement.
Summary:
Herschel B. Chipp's 'Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book By Artists and Critics' is a collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and interviews. Sources include, as the title says, artists and critics -- some expected, like van Gogh, Gauguin, Apollinaire, Mondrian, Greenberg, just to name a few -- and some less so: Trotsky and Hitler, in the section on Art and Politics. The book is a wonderful resource and insight into the way artists think and work.
ISBN:
0520052560
9780520052567
0520014502 (pbk.)
9780520014503 (pbk.)
Subject:
Art, Modern 19th century History.
Art, Modern 20th century History.
Surrealism.
Dadaism.
Cubism.
Expressionism (Art)
Constructivism (Art)
Symbolism in art.
Fauvism.
Post-impressionism (Art)
Art 19e siècle Histoire.
Art 20e siècle Histoire.
Surréalisme.
Dadaïsme.
Cubisme.
Expressionnisme (Art)
Constructivisme (Art)
Symbolisme dans l'art.
Fauvisme.
Postimpressionnisme (Art)
Surrealist.
Dada.
Cubist.
Fauve.
Post-Impressionist.
Art, Modern
Kunsttheorie.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Art, Modern 19th century.
Art 19th century History.
Art 20th century History.
Art, 19th History
Art, 20th History
Form/genre:
History
Books.
Art criticism.
Critiques d'art.
Added entries:
Selz, Peter, 1919-2019, contributor.
Taylor, Joshua C. (Joshua Charles), 1917-1981, contributor.
California studies in the history of art.
Holdings:
Location: Library main 118899
Call No.: ID:86-B4058
Status: Available
