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Art in theory, 1900-1990 : an anthology of changing ideas / edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood. - Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1993. - xxv, 1189 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. The legacy of symbolism --
Classicism and originality --
Expression and the primitive --
II. The idea of the modern world --
Modernity --
Cubism --
III. Rationalization and transformation --
Neo-classicism and the call to order --
Dissent and disorder --
Abstraction and form --
Utility and construction --
IV. Freedom, responsibility and power --
The modern as ideal --
Realism as figuration --
Realism as critique --
Modernism as critique --
V. The individual and the social --
The American avant-garde --
Individualism in Europe --
Art and society --
VI. Modernization and Modernism --
Art and modern life --
Modernist art --
VII. Institutions and objections --
Objecthood and reductivism --
Attitudes to form --
Political aspects --
Critical revisions --
VIII. Ideas of the postmodern --
The condition of history --
The critique of originality --
Figures of difference. TOC



ISBN: 0631165746 (hb : acidfree paper) 0631165754 (pb : acidfree paper) 9780631165743

LCCN: 92006007

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Art, Modern--Philosophy.--20th century

LC Class. No.: N6490 / .A7167 1993

Dewey Class. No.: 709.04 / ART 1992