Theories of Modern Art
A Source Book by Artists and Critics
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"The richest, most thorough and authoritative anthology of theoretical source materials on painting and sculpture since Cézanne."—San Francisco Chronicle
"One gets an insight concerning their art, a feeling of knowing the artists, and an awareness of their humanness—added dimensions that make viewing their art work even more meaningful...This book is a significant contribution and is an important source for anyone interested in or involved with modern art."—Art Education
"He wrote the book to fill a need often cited by art historians and students—to put the study of modern art on a sounder ideological basis...this source book has the advantages of objectivity and large scope...high recommended for art collections and also for its relevance to humanities in general."—Library Journal
"One gets an insight concerning their art, a feeling of knowing the artists, and an awareness of their humanness—added dimensions that make viewing their art work even more meaningful...This book is a significant contribution and is an important source for anyone interested in or involved with modern art."—Art Education
"He wrote the book to fill a need often cited by art historians and students—to put the study of modern art on a sounder ideological basis...this source book has the advantages of objectivity and large scope...high recommended for art collections and also for its relevance to humanities in general."—Library Journal
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
I. POST-IMPRESSIONISM: Individual Paths to Construction and Expression
Introduction: The Letters of Cézanne
Paul Cézanne: Excerpts from the Letters
Introduction: The Lettters of van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh: Excerpts from the Letters
II. SYMBOLISM AND OTHER SUBJECTIVIST TENDENCIES: Form and the Evocation of Feeling
Introduction: Gauguin and Other Subjectivists
Paul Gauguin: Synthetist Theories
Gauguin: On His Paintings
Gauguin: On Primitivism
Symbolist Theories
III. FAUVISM AND EXPRESSIONISM: The Creative Intuition
Introduction by Peter Selz
Fauvism
Expressionism
IV. CUBISM: Form as Expresssion
Introduction
V. FUTURISM: Dynamism as the Expression of the Modern World
Introductoin by Joshua C. Taylor
VI. NEOPLASTICISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM: Abstract and Nonobjective Art
Introduction
VII. DADA, SURREALISM, AND SCUOLA METAFISICA: The Irrational and the Dream
Introduction: Dada and Surrealsism
Dada
Surrealism
Introduction: Scuola Metafisica by Joshua C. Taylor
VIII. ART AND POLITICS: The Artist and the Social Order
Introduction by Peter Selz
IX. CONTEMPORARY ART: The Autonomy of the Work of Art
Introduction: The Americans
Introduction: The Europeans
APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
I. POST-IMPRESSIONISM: Individual Paths to Construction and Expression
Introduction: The Letters of Cézanne
Paul Cézanne: Excerpts from the Letters
Introduction: The Lettters of van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh: Excerpts from the Letters
II. SYMBOLISM AND OTHER SUBJECTIVIST TENDENCIES: Form and the Evocation of Feeling
Introduction: Gauguin and Other Subjectivists
Paul Gauguin: Synthetist Theories
Gauguin: On His Paintings
Gauguin: On Primitivism
Symbolist Theories
III. FAUVISM AND EXPRESSIONISM: The Creative Intuition
Introduction by Peter Selz
Fauvism
Expressionism
IV. CUBISM: Form as Expresssion
Introduction
V. FUTURISM: Dynamism as the Expression of the Modern World
Introductoin by Joshua C. Taylor
VI. NEOPLASTICISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM: Abstract and Nonobjective Art
Introduction
VII. DADA, SURREALISM, AND SCUOLA METAFISICA: The Irrational and the Dream
Introduction: Dada and Surrealsism
Dada
Surrealism
Introduction: Scuola Metafisica by Joshua C. Taylor
VIII. ART AND POLITICS: The Artist and the Social Order
Introduction by Peter Selz
IX. CONTEMPORARY ART: The Autonomy of the Work of Art
Introduction: The Americans
Introduction: The Europeans
APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX