Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics / Edition 1

by Herschel B. Chipp, Peter Selz, Joshua C. Taylor

Overview

Herschel B. Chipp's Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book By Artists and Critics is a collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and interviews. Sources include, as the title says, artists and critics—some expected, like van Gogh, Gauguin, Apollinaire, Mondrian, Greenberg, just to name a few—and some less so: Trotsky and Hitler, in the section on Art and Politics. The book is a wonderful resource and insight into the way artists think and work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520052567
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	06/15/1968
Series:	California Studies in the History of Art , #11
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	688
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Herschel B. Chipp is Professor of Art History at the University of California in Berkeley and the author of Theories of Modern Art.

Table of Contents

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

I. POST-IMPRESSIONISM: Individual Paths to Construction and Expression
Introduction: The Letters of Cézanne
Paul Cézanne: Excerpts from the Letters
Introduction: The Lettters of van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh: Excerpts from the Letters

II. SYMBOLISM AND OTHER SUBJECTIVIST TENDENCIES: Form and the Evocation of Feeling
Introduction: Gauguin and Other Subjectivists
Paul Gauguin: Synthetist Theories
Gauguin: On His Paintings
Gauguin: On Primitivism
Symbolist Theories

III. FAUVISM AND EXPRESSIONISM: The Creative Intuition
Introduction by Peter Selz
Fauvism
Expressionism

IV. CUBISM: Form as Expresssion
Introduction

V. FUTURISM: Dynamism as the Expression of the Modern World
Introductoin by Joshua C. Taylor

VI. NEOPLASTICISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM: Abstract and Nonobjective Art
Introduction

VII. DADA, SURREALISM, AND SCUOLA METAFISICA: The Irrational and the Dream
Introduction: Dada and Surrealsism
Dada
Surrealism
Introduction: Scuola Metafisica by Joshua C. Taylor

VIII. ART AND POLITICS: The Artist and the Social Order
Introduction by Peter Selz

IX. CONTEMPORARY ART: The Autonomy of the Work of Art

Introduction: The Americans
Introduction: The Europeans
APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Editorial Reviews

"Once in a great while one discovers a book that is unusual in approach, scope, and content. This is such a book . . . From the words of the artists, . . . one gets an insight concerning their art, a feeling of knowing the artists, and an awareness of their humanness — added dimensions that make viewing their art work even more meaningful. . . . This book is a significant contribution and is an important source for anyone interested in or involved with modern art."

Art Education

"The richest, most thorough and authoritative anthology of theoretical source materials on painting and sculpture since Cezanne which has so far appeared."

San Francisco Chronicle

"The richest, most thorough and authoritative anthology of theoretical source materials on painting and sculpture since Cezanne which has so far appeared."

San Francisco Chronicle

"The richest, most thorough and authoritative anthology of theoretical source materials on painting and sculpture since Cezanne which has so far appeared."

San Francisco Chronicle - Alfred Frankenstein