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Post-Impressionism to World War II

This work offers an anthology of the best art history writings of the post-Impressionist period, and includes several key essays by intellectual giants such as Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger, knitting together primary sources and classic 'canonical' criticism
Print Book, English, 2006
Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA, 2006
xv, 415 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
9781405111539, 9781405111522, 1405111534, 1405111526
57352755
Post-impressionism / Roger Fry
Why are we publishing a journal? / Ver Sacrum
Notes of a painter / Henri Matisse
The founding and manifest of futurism / F.T. Marinetti
Dada manifesto / Hugo Ball
The work ahead of us / Vladimir Tatlin
First manifesto of surrealism / André Breton
Introduction to "new objectivity": German painting since Expressionism / Gustav Hartlaub
Gustave Moreau / Joris-Karl Huysmans
Symbolism in painting: Paul Gauguin / G.-Albert Aurier
From Abstraction and empathy: a contribution to the psychology of style / Wilhelm Worringer
From On the spiritual in art / Wassily Kandinsky
Mystery and creation / Giorgio de Chirico
From cubism and futurism to suprematism: the new painterly realism / Kazimir Malevich
Neo-plasticism: the general principle of plastic equivalence / Piet Mondrian
The mass ornament / Siegfried Kracauer
The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin
Avant-garde and kitsch / Clement Greenberg
Modernism in the work of art / Victor Burgin
The hidden dialectic: avantgarde-technology-mass culture / Andreas Huyssen
The politics of the avant-garde / Raymond Williams
From Theory of avant-garde / Peter Bürger
Jugglers' fair beneath the gallows / Ernst Bloch
Towards a free revolutionary art / André Breton, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky
The birth of socialist realism from the spirit of the Russian avant-garde / Boris Groys
Going native / Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Virility and domination in early twentieth-century vanguard painting / Carol Duncan
Men's work? masculinity and modernism / Lisa Tickner
What the papers say: politics and ideology in Picasso's collages of 1912 / David Cottington
Dada as " buffoonery and requiem at the same time" / Hanne Bergius
Surrealism: fetishism's job / Dawn Ades