Description

"Post-Impressionism to World War II", edited by Debbie Lewer (2006) is the first volume in the "Blackwell Anthologies in Art History" series.

Contents

Part I: Programs and Manifestos
Introduction
1 Post-Impressionism (Roger Fry)
2 Why Are We Publishing a Journal? (Ver Sacrum editorial)
3 Notes of a Painter (Henri Matisse)
4 The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism (F. T. Marinetti)
5 Dada Manifesto (Hugo Ball)
6 The Work Ahead of Us (Vladimir Tatlin)
7 First Manifesto of Surrealism (André Breton)
8 Introduction to "New Objectivity": German Painting since Expressionism 50 (Gustav Hartlaub)

Part II: Spirit and Subjectivity
Introduction
9 Gustave Moreau (Joris-Karl Huysmans)
10 Symbolism in Painting: Paul Gauguin (G.-Albert Aurier)
11 From Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style (Wilhelm Worringer)
12 From On the Spiritual in Art (Wassily Kandinsky)
13 Mystery and Creation (Giorgio de Chirico)
14 From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Painterly Realism (Kazimir Malevich)
15 Neo-Plasticism: The General Principle of Plastic Equivalence (Piet Mondrian)

Part III: Mass Culture and Modernity
Introduction
16 The Mass Ornament (Siegfried Kracauer)
17 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Walter Benjamin)
18 Avant-Garde and Kitsch (Clement Greenberg)
19 Modernism in the Work of Art (Victor Burgin)
20 The Hidden Dialectic: Avantgarde–Technology–Mas s Culture (Andreas Huyssen)

Part IV: Politics and the Avant-Garde
Introduction
21 The Politics of the Avant-Garde (Raymond Williams)
22 From Theory of the Avant-Garde (Peter Bürger)
23 Jugglers’ Fair Beneath the Gallows (Ernst Bloch)
24 Towards a Free Revolutionary Art (André Breton, Diego Rivera, and Leon Trotsky)
25 The Birth of Socialist Realism from the Spirit of the Russian Avant-Garde (Boris Groys)

Part V: Identity and Appropriation
Introduction
26 Going Native (Abigail Solomon-Godeau)
27 Virility and Domination in Early Twentieth-Century Vanguard Painting (Carol Duncan)
28 Men’s Work? Masculinity and Modernism (Lisa Tickner)
29 What the Papers Say: Politics and Ideology in Picasso’s Collages of 1912 (David Cottington)
30 Dada as "Buffoonery and Requiem at the Same Time" (Hanne Bergius)
31 Surrealism: Fetishism’s Job (Dawn Ades)