| Description |
viii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Part 3 Modern art and mass culture -- The significance of colour for interior and exterior architecture 1923 / Theo van Doesburg -- The quarrel with realism, the destiny of painting 1930s / Le Corbusier -- Agit-prop art : the streets were their theater 1980 / Szymon Bojko -- Film directors, a revolution from Lef 1923 / Dziga Vertov -- Topography of typography 1923 / El Lissitzky -- Our book 1926 / El Lissitzky -- Rules about typography 1924 / Kurt Schwitters -- Inspiration to order 1932 / Max Ernst -- New thoughts on the plastic arts in Mexico 1933 / David Siqueros -- Painting after the war 1936 / Ambroise Vollard -- My life in London 1946 / Peggy Guggenheim -- The creative act 1957 ; Apropos of readymades 1939 / Marcel Duchamp -- The avante-garde and kitsch 1939 / Clement Greenberg -- Jackson Pollock, is he the greatest living painter in the United States 1949 / Life magazine -- The postwar product : the ICA's department of design in industry 1985 / David Joselit -- One-dimensional society 1964 / Herbert Marcuse |
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Part 4 Revisions of modernism -- Postmodernism in a nominalist frame 1988 / John Rajchman -- What is history for? 1989 / Sande Cohen -- Turning the postmodern corner : a personal epilogue 1989 / Peter Hertz-Ohmes |
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Part one Modern art, urbanism, and mass production -- The modern spirit 1918 / Le Corbusier and Amedee Ozenfant -- Constructivist art 1921 / Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova -- What is constructivism? 1924 / Editors of Blok -- Futurism and the automobile 1985 / Gerald Silk -- The machine aesthetic 1 : the manufactured object, the artisan 1924 / Fernand Leger -- The new vision 1928 / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Art out into technology 1932 / Vladimir Tatlin -- Dada, constructivism 1984 / Dawn Ades -- From faktura to factography 1984 / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- The artist and the machine 1932 / Paul T. Frankl -- Art and the machine : background in art and industry 1936 / Sheldon Cheney and Martha Cheney -- Selling the machine age 1986 / Richard Guy Wilson |
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Part two Modern art, war, and politics -- Notes on cubism, war, and labour 1985 / Roger D. Cranshaw -- Zurich 1916, as it really was 1928 / Richard Huelsenbech -- My new pictures 1920 / George Grosz -- The deutscher woerkbund from 1907 to 1933 and the movements for the Reform of life and culture 1977 / Joachim Petsch -- The November revolution and the institutionalization of expressionism in Berlin 1988 -- Beyond communism 1920 / Filippo Marinetti -- Portrait of Mussolini 1929 / Filippo Marinetti -- Guns 1919 / Wyndham Lewis -- The men who paint hell 1919 / Wyndham Lewis -- Revolutionary art, mass art, and the specific form of the class struggle 1929 / Cesar Vallejo -- Functionalism 1936 / Katarzyna Kobro -- Modern art in Poland 1934 / Wladyslaw Strzeminski / Virility and domination in early twentieth century vanguard painting 1973 / Carol Duncan -- Feminity and feminism 1981 / Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock |
| Summary |
"An overview of modern art theory and history, this anthology treats modern art as a complex cultural, political, and social process intimately connected with larger cultural, political, and social contexts."--Pearson |
| Analysis |
Art and society History 20th century |
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Art, Modern 20th century Philosophy |
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Politics in art |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-413) and index |
| Subject |
Art and society -- History -- 20th century.
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Art and society -- 20th century.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy.
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Politics in art.
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| Genre/Form |
Art criticism.
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| Author |
Hertz, Richard, 1940-
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Klein, Norman M., 1945-
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| LC no. |
89049332 |
| ISBN |
0139333916 |
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