Presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the 20th century. The volume explores the invocation of the primitive at the end of the 19th century, analyzes Cubist works based on semiotic theory, and considers some problems of interpretation and evolution posed by some specific examples.

The first volume in this series focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris between 1848 and 1900. The book demonstrates how some historians view this art as representative of the social, historical and economic circumstances in which it was produced.

Modern Art and Modernism offers first-hand material for the study of issues central to the development of modern art, its theory and criticism. The history of modern art is not simply a history of works of art, it is also a history of ideas and interpretations. The works of critics and theorists have not merely been influential in deciding how modern art is to be seen and understood, they have ...

Contains articles that exemplify important interventions from the 1960s onwards: Histories, Representations and Remembrance; Art and Visual/Mass/Popular Culture; Institutions; Inclusions/Exclusions; Bodies and Identities; and Power and Permissibility.

This reader for the Open University's course on Modern Art: Practices and Debates presents a selection of key texts, including classic works from the 1930s to the 1960s, alongside contemporary writings, that introduce the reader to many issues on which critics and art historians have focused.

Contains articles that exemplify important interventions from the 1960s onwards: Histories, Representations and Remembrance; Art and Visual/Mass/Popular Culture; Institutions; Inclusions/Exclusions; Bodies and Identities; and Power and Permissibility.

This revised edition has been fully updated to take account of new critical approaches to postwar American art.

This revised edition of Pollock and After features ten new articles and is fully updated to take account of new critical approaches to post-war American art.

Provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events in the history of cultural politics in the United States during the postwar