This book, the third in the Art of the Twentieth Century series, considers works of art produced in Europe and the United States between the 1930s and the 1960s. Arranged in four main parts, this abundantly illustrated book begins by examining aspects of the European avant-garde from the 1930s to the aftermath of the Second World War. The second part focuses on the emergence of Abstract Expressionism in the U.S., in particular the work of Jackson Pollock and important critics. Part three looks at "autonomous" high modernism of the early to mid-1960s and the contemporary, related...
This book, the third in the Art of the Twentieth Century series, considers works of art produced in Europe and the United States between the 19...
This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s.
New edition of this popular anthology of twentieth-century art-theoretical texts.
Now updated to include the results of new research, together with significant contributions from the 1990s.
Includes writings by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures.
The editors provide contextual introductions to 340 texts.
Complements Art in Theory...
This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant co...
A collection of ten specially commissioned essays addressing five themes central to any study of the Scottish Enlightenment: one, the place (both physical and cognitive) of science and medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment; two, the institutionalization of enlightenment in the universities; three, the cultivation of the different branches of "the science of man" in the Scottish Enlightenment; four, the national and international contexts of enlightenment thought in Scotland; and five, the historiography of the Scottish Enlightenment. Taking up these themes, the editor and contributors...
A collection of ten specially commissioned essays addressing five themes central to any study of the Scottish Enlightenment: one, the place (both phys...