Art of the Twentieth Century : A Reader

Art of the Twentieth Century: A Reader is a collection of writings by critics and art historians on the major themes and debates that have animated the practice and interpretation of art over the last hundred years. Thirty five texts, spanning the entire twentieth century, are grouped together in six sections, each designed to highlight a major aspect of changing ideas about modern art. Book jacket.

Jason Gaiger and Paul Wood are both lecturers in art history at the Open University

Acknowledgements

ix

A Note on the Presentation and Editing of Texts

x

List of Illustrations

xi

Introduction

xix

I Modernism and the Crisis of Modernism

Introduction

3

(1)

1 Selection of statements on early modernism

4

(18)

(i) Clive Bell

4

(3)

'Simplification and Design', 1913

(ii) Roger Fry

7

(3)

'Negro Sculpture', 1920

(iii) Carola Giedion-Welcker

10

(6)

from Modern Plastic Art, 1937

(iv) Robert Goldwater

16

(2)

'A Definition of Primitivism', 1938

(v) Sheldon Cheney

18

(2)

from The Story of Modern Art, 1941

(vi) Elaine de Kooning

20

(2)

'Statement', 1959

2 Meyer Schapiro

22

(9)

'The Nature of Abstract Art', 1937

3 Eugene Lunn

31

(7)

'Modernism in Comparative Perspective', 1982

4 T.J. Clark

38

(17)

from Farewell to an Idea, 1999

II Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde

Introduction

55

(1)

1 Peter Burger

56

(6)

from Theory of the Avant-Garde, 1974

2 Paul Smith

62

(27)

'How a Cubist Painting Holds Together', 2002

3 Clement Greenberg

89

(5)

The Pasted-Paper Revolution', 1958

4 Henri Lefebvre

94

(4)

from The Critique of Everyday Life, 1947

5 Benjamin Buchloh

98

(11)

'The Primary Colours for the Second Time: A Paradigm Repetition of the Neo-Avant-Garde', 1986

III Modernity and Photography

Introduction

109

(1)

1 Walter Benjamin

110

(2)

'News about Flowers', 1928

2 Hannah Hoch

112

(2)

A Few Words on Photomontage', 1934

3 Rosalind Krauss

114

(18)

'Photography in the Service of Surrealism', 1986

4 John Szarkowski

132

(7)

from The Photographer's Eye, 1969

5 Allan Sekula

139

(6)

'Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation)', 1976-8

6 Jeff Wall

145

(22)

'"Marks of Indifference": Aspects of Photography In, or as, Conceptual Art', 1995

IV Subjects and Objects

Introduction

167

(1)

1 Philip Leider

168

(6)

'Literalism and Abstraction', 1970

2 Alex Potts

174

(15)

'Space, Time and Situation', 2000

3 Lucy Lippard

189

(9)

'Escape Attempts', 1995

4 Clement Greenberg

198

(7)

'Convention and Innovation', 1976

5 Charles Harrison

205

(8)

Art Object and Art Work', 1989

6 Miwon Kwon

213

(12)

'One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity', 1997

V The Performance of Identity

Introducti.on

225

(1)

1 Frank O'Hara

225

(2)

'Personisms A Manifesto', 1960

2 Griselda Pollock

227

(22)

'Painting, Feminism, History', 2001

3 Craig Owens

249

(12)

The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism', 1985

4 Amelia Jones

261

(13)

from Body Art: Performing the Subject, 1998

5 Briony Fer

274

(15)

'Objects Beyond Objecthond', 1999

VI Globalisation

Introduction

289

(1)

1 Stuart Hall

290

(7)

'What Is this "black" in black popular culture?', 1992

2 Sarat Maharaj

297

(7)

'Perfidious Fidelity: the Untranslatability of the Other', 1994

3 Rex Butler

304

(15)

'Emily Kame Kngwarreye and the Undeconstructible Space of Justice', 1998

4 Okwui Enwezor

319

(8)

'The Black Box', 2002

Index

327

(18)

Text Acknowledgements

345

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