Art in modern culture an anthology of critical texts edited by Francis Frascina and Jonathan Harris

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Phaidon in association with the Open University 1992Description: 341pISBN:

0714828408

Subject(s):

Visual arts Modernism

DDC classification:

700.904 FRA

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709.04 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Missing		39002000121088
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	700.904 FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	6	Available		39002100372946

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The traditional discipline of art history has been expanded and challenged by new insights and alternative perspectives, resulting in a series of wide-ranging debates on the status of art and its role in culture and history. This reader for the Open University's course, 'Modern Art: Practices and Debates', presents a radical selection of key texts reflecting the intense debates on art and its social role influenced by feminism, Marxism, social and literary theory, linguistics and anthropology. This anthology introduces the reader to these debates and covers the whole range of issues which critics and art historians have focused, offering classic texts from the 1930s to the 1960s alongside those of contemporary authors engaged in current debate.

Includes index

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Preface (p. 9)
Introduction (p. 10)
Introductory Texts (p. 16)
1 Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (p. 17)
2 When Was Modernism? (p. 23)
3 Vision, Voice and Power: Feminist Art History and Marxism (p. 28)
4 Politics and the Intelligentsia (p. 32)
Part I Capitalism and Culture (p. 36)
Introduction to Part I (p. 37)
5 The Painting of Modern Life (p. 40)
6 On the Problem of the Autonomy of Art in Bourgeois Society (p. 51)
7 Aesthetics and Politics (p. 64)
8 Art, Autonomy and Mass Culture (p. 74)
9 On Non-Objective Painting (p. 80)
10 Abstract Expressionism, Weapon of the Cold War (p. 82)
11 Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism (p. 91)
Part II Gender', 'Race' and the Politics of Representation (p. 101)
Introduction to Part II (p. 102)
12 Preliminaries to a Possible Treatment of 'Olympia' in 1865 (p. 105)
13 Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity (p. 121)
14 Orientalism (p. 136)
15 Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (p. 145)
16 Mapping (p. 160)
Part III Historical Methods and Critical Perspectives (p. 170)
Introduction to Part III (p. 171)
17 The Love of Art (p. 174)
18 Defining 'Impressionism' and the 'Impression' (p. 181)
19 The Intransigent Artist or How the Impressionists Got Their Name (p. 189)
20 The 'Primitive' Unconscious of Modern Art (p. 199)
21 In the Name of Picasso (p. 210)
22 Figures of Authority, Ciphers of Regression: Notes on the Return of Representation in European Painting (p. 222)
23 The New Adventures of the Avant-Garde in America: Greenberg, Pollock, or from Trotskyism to the New Liberalism of the 'Vital Center' Translated by Thomas Repensek (p. 239)
24 Greenberg and the Group: a Retrospective View (p. 252)
25 Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power (p. 264)
26 The Museum of Modern Art: the Past's Future (p. 282)
Part IV Aesthetic Theory and Social Critique (p. 292)
Introduction to Part IV (p. 293)
27 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (p. 297)
28 Modernist Painting (p. 308)
29 'the Works of Art Themselves'? (p. 315)
30 Literalism and Abstraction: Frank Stella's Retrospective at the Modern (p. 319)
31 Painting: the Task of Mourning (p. 326)
32 A Report on the Western Front Postmodernism and the 'Politics' of Style (p. 331)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Francis Frascina is John Raven Professor of Visual Arts and Jonathan Harris is Lecturer in History of Art and Critical Theory in the Department of Visual Arts, Keele University.