1st Edition
Writing Back to Modern Art After Greenberg, Fried and Clark
By Jonathan Harris
Copyright 2005
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
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Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth century, which helps us build a better understanding of the development of modern art writing and its relation to the 'post-modern' in art and society since the 1970s.
Focusing on canonical modern artists such as Manet, Cezanne, Picasso and Pollock,... Read more
Introduction; Looking and writing back; Composition and self-composition; Class, glass, and opacity; Modernism, the decay of collective style, and the past of art; . . . Not just interpreters, collaborators’? The subject object; ‘Narcissus looking interminably into the unclean mirror . . .’ 1 Modernism’s modern art 2 Pure formality: 1960s abstract painting 3 Pollock, or ‘abstraction’ 4 Cubism’s complexities 5 The materials of seeing: Cézanne and Van Gogh 6 Modernism’s Manet, Conclusion: ‘post’ script
Biography
Jonathan Harris teaches Art History in the School of Architecture at the University of Liverpool. He has published widely on art and art history, specializing in twentieth-century American art, the rise of the ‘new art history’, and the relations between art history and social theory. His recent publications include Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Painting: Hybridity, Hegemony, Historicism (2003) and The New Art History: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2001).
