Bibliograph

Theories of modern art, a source book by artists and critics, Herschel B. Chipp ; contributions by Peter Selz and Joshua C. Taylor

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Theories of modern art, a source book by artists and critics, Herschel B. Chipp ; contributions by Peter Selz and Joshua C. Taylor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 627-651) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Theories of modern art

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

51550873

Responsibility statement

Herschel B. Chipp ; contributions by Peter Selz and Joshua C. Taylor

Series statement

California studies in the history of art, 11

Sub title

a source book by artists and critics

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

Table Of Contents

GENERAL INTRODUCTION --- I. POST-IMPRESSIONISM: Individual Paths to Construction and Expression. 1. Introduction: The Letters of Cézanne -- 2. Paul Cézanne: Excerpts from the Letters -- 3. Introduction: The Lettters of van Gogh -- 4. Vincent van Gogh: Excerpts from the Letters --- II. SYMBOLISM AND OTHER SUBJECTIVIST TENDENCIES: Form and the Evocation of Feeling. 5. Introduction: Gauguin and Other Subjectivists -- 6. Paul Gauguin: Synthetist Theories -- 7. Gauguin: On His Paintings -- 8. Gauguin: On Primitivism -- 9. Symbolist Theories --- III. FAUVISM AND EXPRESSIONISM: The Creative Intuition. 10. Introduction by Peter Selz -- 11. Fauvism -- 12. Expressionism --- IV. CUBISM: Form as Expresssion. 13. Introduction --- V. FUTURISM: Dynamism as the Expression of the Modern World. 14. Introductoin by Joshua C. Taylor --- VI. NEOPLASTICISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM: Abstract and Nonobjective Art. 15. Introduction --- VII. DADA, SURREALISM, AND SCUOLA METAFISICA: The Irrational and the Dream. 16. Introduction: Dada and Surrealsism -- 17. Dada -- 18. Surrealism -- 19. Introduction: Scuola Metafisica by Joshua C. Taylor --- VIII. ART AND POLITICS: The Artist and the Social Order. 20. Introduction by Peter Selz --- IX. CONTEMPORARY ART: The Autonomy of the Work of Art. 21. Introduction: The Americans -- 22. Introduction: The Europeans --- APPENDIX

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