Post-Impressionism to World War II (Blackwell Anthologies in Art History) [Paperback]

Debbie Lewer (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1405111526 | ISBN-13: 978-1405111522 | Publication Date: August 8, 2005 | Edition: 1

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 Bürger knit together primary sources and classic, “canonical” criticism.

• 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 Bürger
  
• 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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"This is a neat little collection of textual sources that will prove invaluable to students and teachers of high modernism. Debbie Lewer has done an excellent job in editing an exemplary selection of texts from the familiar to the obscure... This anthology represents the first book to be published as part of a new series: the Blackwell Anthologies in Art History. These books will provide overviews of major periods in art history. If they are all of this consistent quality then this will prove to be an excellent and invaluable series." The Art Book

“Post-Impressionism to World War II is a skillfully selected anthology of texts on art history and theory which will be of great value to undergraduate and graduate students of art history and cultural theory.” Andrew Causey, University of Manchester

“At the heart of Debbie Lewer’s selection of texts lies a powerful sense ofthe way modern art intersected with broader political and cultural debates.This will prove to be an inspiring and enduring resource for students oftwentieth-century art.” David Hopkins, University of Glasgow

“This is an invaluable collection of the texts that set the terms for and responded to the modernist projects of the twentieth century, supported by clear, nuanced editorial essays situating them within a range of critical understandings.” Elizabeth Legge, University of Toronto

Book Description

Post-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of writings by artists, critics, and historians. The texts include primary sources from the 1880s to the eve of war in the late 1930s, knit together by classic analyses from critics such as Benjamin, Greenberg, and Burger. The volume also includes more recent critical interventions from a range of methodological perspectives, both well-known and less familiar. Introductory essays explore the key themes raised by the texts. The result is a vivid chronicle of avant-garde practice in Europe during an especially creative, and volatile, period of history.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (August 8, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405111526
• ISBN-13: 978-1405111522
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars An anthology of original thoughts without pictures, December 10, 2007

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This review is from: Post-Impressionism to World War II (Blackwell Anthologies in Art History) (Paperback)

"Post-Impressionism to World War II" is a collection of writings by artists, critics, and historians without illustrations. The texts include primary sources from 1880s to the late 1930s as well as more recent criticism. This sophisticated black-and-white anthology may satisfy curiosity of serious art students and teachers by providing a point of view by, or analytical materials pertinent to, many artists including their art's programs and manifestos, spirit and subjectivity, relation to mass culture and modernity, politics and avant-garde, identity and appropriation. It is essential for those hungry for original thoughts.
CONTENTS:
Series Editor's Preface viii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xii
Part I: Programs and Manifestos
Introduction 1
1 Post-Impressionism by Roger Fry 13
2 Why Are We Publishing a Journal? by Ver Sacrum editorial 18
3 Notes of a Painter by Henri Matisse 21
4 The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism by F. T Marinetti 28
5 Dada Manifesto by Hugo Ball 33
6 The Work Ahead of Us by Vladimir Tatlin 35
7 First Manifesto of Surrealism by André Breton 36
8 Introduction to "New Objectivity": German Painting since Expressionism by Gustav Hartlaub 50
Part II: Spirit and Subjectivity
Introduction 53
9 Gustave Moreau by Joris-Karl Huysmans 69
10 Symbolism in Painting: Paul Gauguin by G. -Albert Aurier 71
11 From Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style by Wilhelm Worringer 79
12 From On the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky 93
13 Mystery and Creation by Giorgio de Chirico 128
14 From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Painterly Realism by Kazimir Malevich 130
15 Neo-Plasticism: The General Principle of Plastic Equivalence by Piet Mondrian 146
Part III: Mass Culture and Modernity
Introduction 155
16 The Mass Ornament by Siegfried Kracauer 165
17 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 174 Walter Benjamin
18 Avant-Garde and Kitsch by Clement Greenberg 188
19 Modernism in the Work of Art by Victor Burgin 201
20 The Hidden Dialectic: Avantgarde-Technology-Mass Culture by Andreas Huyssen 218
Part IV: Politics and the Avant-Garde
Introduction 231
21 The Politics of the Avant-Garde by Raymond Williams 240
22 From Theory of the Avant-Garde by Peter Burger 253
23 Jugglers' Fair Beneath the Gallows by Ernst Bloch 265
24 Towards a Free Revolutionary Art by André Breton, Diego Rivera, and Leon Trotsky 270
25 The Birth of Socialist Realism from the Spirit of the Russian Avant-Garde by Boris Groys 274
Part V: Identity and Appropriation
Introduction 297
26 Going Native by Abigail Solomon-Godeau 304
27 Virility and Domination in Early Twentieth-Century Vanguard Painting by Carol Duncan 320
28 Men's Work? Masculinity and Modernism by Lisa Tickner 337
29 What the Papers Say: Politics and Ideology in Picasso's Collages of 1912 by David Cottington 349
30 Dada as "Buffoonery and Requiem at the Same Time" by Hanne Bergius 366
31 Surrealism: Fetishism's Job by Dawn Ades 381
Index 400