Theories of modern art : a source book by artists and critics / Herschel B. Chipp [with] contributions by Peter Selz and Joshua C. Taylor.

Author(s): Selz, Peter | Taylor, Joshua C. | Chipp, Herschel B.

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Main Title
Theories of modern art : a source book by artists and critics
Author(s)
Chipp, Herschel B.
Selz, Peter
Taylor, Joshua C.
Publisher
Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1968
Collation
v, 664 p. : ill., ports.
25 cm.
Series Title
California studies in the history of art.
ISBN
0520052560
Dewey Class
709.04
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 Letters 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 Expression. 13. Introduction -- V. FUTURISM: Dynamism as the Expression of the Modern World. 14. Introduction 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 Surrealism -- 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.
Language
English
Subject
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- History.
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- History.
BRN
4284

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