Title & Author:

Art in theory, 1900-2000 : an anthology of changing ideas / edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Description:

xxvii, 1258 pages ; 26 cm

Series:

Art in theory

Notes:
Revised edition of: Art in theory, 1900-1990. 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1188-1211) and index.
Classicism and originality -- Expression and the primitive -- Modernity -- Cubism -- Neo-classicism and the call to order -- Dissent and disorder -- Abstraction and form -- Utility and construction -- The modern as ideal -- Realism as figuration -- Realism as critique -- Modernism as critique -- The American avant-garde -- Individualism in Europe -- Art and society -- Art and modern life -- Modernist art -- Objecthood and reductivism -- Attitudes to form -- Political aspects -- Critical revisions -- The critique of originality -- Figures of difference -- The condition of history.

Summary:

"Since it was first published in 1992, this book has become one of the leading anthologies of art theoretical texts in the English-speaking world. This expanded edition includes the fruit of recent research, involving a considerable amount of newly translated material from the entire period, together with additional texts from the last decades of the twentieth century"--Back cover.

Resources:
Additional Information at Google Books

ISBN:

0631227075 (alk. paper)
9780631227076 (alk. paper)
0631227083 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780631227083 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art, Modern 20th century Philosophy.
Art 20e siècle Philosophie.
Art, Modern Philosophy
Kunst
Moderne
Ästhetik
Esthetica.
Kunsttheorie.

Form/genre:

Anthologie.

Added entries:

Harrison, Charles, 1942-2009.
Wood, Paul.
Art in theory, 1900-1990.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224100
Call No.: N6490 .A7167 2003
Status: Available