Twentieth century art theory : urbanism, politics, and mass culture / [edited by] Richard Hertz, Norman M. Klein.

"An overview of modern art theory and history, this anthology treats modern art as a complex cultural, political, and social process intimately connected with larger cultural, political, and social contexts."--Pearson.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Hertz, Richard, 1940-, Klein, Norman M., 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, ©1990.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part one : Modern art, urbanism, and mass production. The modern spirit 1918 / Le Corbusier and Amedee Ozenfant
  • Constructivist art 1921 / Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova
  • What is constructivism? 1924 / Editors of Blok
  • Futurism and the automobile 1985 / Gerald Silk
  • The machine aesthetic 1 : the manufactured object, the artisan 1924 / Fernand Leger
  • The new vision 1928 / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
  • Art out into technology 1932 / Vladimir Tatlin
  • Dada, constructivism 1984 / Dawn Ades
  • From faktura to factography 1984 / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
  • The artist and the machine 1932 / Paul T. Frankl
  • Art and the machine : background in art and industry 1936 / Sheldon Cheney and Martha Cheney
  • Selling the machine age 1986 / Richard Guy Wilson
  • Part two : Modern art, war, and politics. Notes on cubism, war, and labour 1985 / Roger D. Cranshaw
  • Zurich 1916, as it really was 1928 / Richard Huelsenbech
  • My new pictures 1920 / George Grosz
  • The deutscher woerkbund from 1907 to 1933 and the movements for the Reform of life and culture 1977 / Joachim Petsch
  • The November revolution and the institutionalization of expressionism in Berlin 1988
  • Beyond communism 1920 / Filippo Marinetti
  • Portrait of Mussolini 1929 / Filippo Marinetti
  • Guns 1919 / Wyndham Lewis
  • The men who paint hell 1919 / Wyndham Lewis
  • Revolutionary art, mass art, and the specific form of the class struggle 1929 / Cesar Vallejo
  • Functionalism 1936 / Katarzyna Kobro
  • Modern art in Poland 1934 / Wladyslaw Strzeminski / Virility and domination in early twentieth century vanguard painting 1973 / Carol Duncan
  • Feminity and feminism 1981 / Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock
  • Part 3 : Modern art and mass culture. The significance of colour for interior and exterior architecture 1923 / Theo van Doesburg
  • The quarrel with realism, the destiny of painting 1930s / Le Corbusier
  • Agit-prop art : the streets were their theater 1980 / Szymon Bojko
  • Film directors, a revolution from Lef 1923 / Dziga Vertov
  • Topography of typography 1923 / El Lissitzky
  • Our book 1926 / El Lissitzky
  • Rules about typography 1924 / Kurt Schwitters
  • Inspiration to order 1932 / Max Ernst
  • New thoughts on the plastic arts in Mexico 1933 / David Siqueros
  • Painting after the war 1936 / Ambroise Vollard
  • My life in London 1946 / Peggy Guggenheim
  • The creative act 1957 ; Apropos of readymades 1939 / Marcel Duchamp
  • The avante-garde and kitsch 1939 / Clement Greenberg
  • Jackson Pollock, is he the greatest living painter in the United States 1949 / Life magazine
  • The postwar product : the ICA's department of design in industry 1985 / David Joselit
  • One-dimensional society 1964 / Herbert Marcuse
  • Part 4 : Revisions of modernism. Postmodernism in a nominalist frame 1988 / John Rajchman
  • What is history for? 1989 / Sande Cohen
  • Turning the postmodern corner : a personal epilogue 1989 / Peter Hertz-Ohmes.