Questioning those who view Impressionism solely in terms of artistic technique, T.J. Clark describes the painting of Manet, Degas, Seurat and others as an attempt to give form to France's modernity and seek out its typical representatives, be they barmaids, sightseers or the petits bourgeois.

This book is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture - Adorno's finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture.

Gathers interviews, articles, letters, and manifestos dealing with Postimpressionism, symbolism, fauvism, Expressionism, and cubism.

These essays on nine women artists are framed by the question, born of feminism, What evaluative criteria can be applied to women's art? . The artists presented challenged masculine aesthetics. They include Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Agnes Martin, Eva Hesse, Sherrie Levine and Claude Cahun.

Seeks to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse, arguing that theory is best employed in response to the specific demands of a critical problem, and demonstrating the uses of various theoretical approaches in conjunction with close reading of both paintings and texts.

How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? The author explores this question through the works and writings of such key modernists as Gauguin and Picasso, F T Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis. He argues that two forms came to dominate modernist art above all others: the primitive and the machine.