Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century
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Book Overview
A unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring forty-eight essays, and written by a panel of expert contributors, it introduces readers to the key approaches and analytical tools of contemporary art study and debate.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0415222028
ISBN13:9780415222020
Release Date:October 2002
Publisher:Routledge
Length:340 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.0" x 7.8"
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A useful resource for art history students
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
The previous reviewer asserts that there are no "key writers on art" represented in this volume, which is an inexplicable statement. Sure, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida did not write primarily about art, but their ideas about visual production and reception had a profound impact on the way the discipline of art history developed in the twentieth century. The book also includes many people who were indisputably "key writers on art," such as the critics Roger Fry, Clive Bell, and Clement Greenberg, or the art historians Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Michael Baxandall, and T.J. Clark. The book is organized into individual biographies, and gives a select bibliography of primary and secondary sources about each writer for those who want to read more. It attempts to provide a reasonably comprehensible list of twentieth-century writers whose ideas helped to shape the theories or methodologies of art history. For students of this discipline, who should be familiar with most of the figures covered in the book, it would be a valuable reference.
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