Writing Back to Modern Art: After Greenberg, Fried and Clark

Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth century, which helps us build a better understanding of the development of modern art writing and its relation to the 'post-modern' in art and society since the 1970s.

Focusing on canonical modern artists such as Manet, Cezanne, Picasso and Pollock, this book provides an important understanding of writing and criticism in modern art for all students and scholars of art theory and art history. Mainstay issues discussed include aesthetic evaluation, subjectivity and meaning in art and art writing. Jonathan Harris examines key discourses and identifies points of significant overlap as well as sharp disjunction between the critics.

Developing the notions of 'good' and 'bad' complexity in modernist criticism, Writing Back to Modern Art creates ways for us to think outside of these discourses of value and meaning and helps us to look at the place that art writing holds in the latter twentieth century and beyond.

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Writing Back to Modern Art: After Greenberg, Fried and Clark

Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth century, which helps us build a better understanding of the development of modern art writing and its relation to the 'post-modern' in art and society since the 1970s.

Focusing on canonical modern artists such as Manet, Cezanne, Picasso and Pollock, this book provides an important understanding of writing and criticism in modern art for all students and scholars of art theory and art history. Mainstay issues discussed include aesthetic evaluation, subjectivity and meaning in art and art writing. Jonathan Harris examines key discourses and identifies points of significant overlap as well as sharp disjunction between the critics.

Developing the notions of 'good' and 'bad' complexity in modernist criticism, Writing Back to Modern Art creates ways for us to think outside of these discourses of value and meaning and helps us to look at the place that art writing holds in the latter twentieth century and beyond.

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Writing Back to Modern Art: After Greenberg, Fried and Clark

Writing Back to Modern Art: After Greenberg, Fried and Clark

by Jonathan Harris
Writing Back to Modern Art: After Greenberg, Fried and Clark

Writing Back to Modern Art: After Greenberg, Fried and Clark

by Jonathan Harris

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Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth century, which helps us build a better understanding of the development of modern art writing and its relation to the 'post-modern' in art and society since the 1970s.

Focusing on canonical modern artists such as Manet, Cezanne, Picasso and Pollock, this book provides an important understanding of writing and criticism in modern art for all students and scholars of art theory and art history. Mainstay issues discussed include aesthetic evaluation, subjectivity and meaning in art and art writing. Jonathan Harris examines key discourses and identifies points of significant overlap as well as sharp disjunction between the critics.

Developing the notions of 'good' and 'bad' complexity in modernist criticism, Writing Back to Modern Art creates ways for us to think outside of these discourses of value and meaning and helps us to look at the place that art writing holds in the latter twentieth century and beyond.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134346813
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/09/2005
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 284
File size: 556 KB

About the Author

Jonathan Harris teaches Art History in the School of Architecture at the University of Liverpool. He has published widely on art and art history, specializing in twentieth-century American art, the rise of the ‘new art history’, and the relations between art history and social theory. His recent publications include Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Painting: Hybridity, Hegemony, Historicism (2003) and The New Art History: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2001).

Table of Contents

Introduction; Looking and writing back; Composition and self-composition; Class, glass, and opacity; Modernism, the decay of collective style, and the past of art; . . . Not just interpreters, collaborators’? The subject object; ‘Narcissus looking interminably into the unclean mirror . . .’ 1 Modernism’s modern art 2 Pure formality: 1960s abstract painting 3 Pollock, or ‘abstraction’ 4 Cubism’s complexities 5 The materials of seeing: Cézanne and Van Gogh 6 Modernism’s Manet, Conclusion: ‘post’ script
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