THEORIES OF MODERN ART : Source book by Artists and Critics
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- London University of California Press 1968/01/01
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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.
General introduction -- I. Post-Impressionism: Individual paths to construction and expression. 1. Introduction: The letters of Cézanne -- 2. Paul Cézanne: excerpts from the letters -- 3. Introduction: the letters of van Gogh -- 4. Vincent van Gogh: excerpts from the letters --- II. Symbolism and other Subjectivist tendencies: form and the evocation of feeling. 5. Introduction: Gauguin and other Subjectivists -- 6. Paul Gauguin: synthetist theories -- 7. Gauguin: on his paintings -- 8. Gauguin: on Primitivism -- 9. Symbolist theories --- III. Fauvism and Expressionism: the creative intuition. 10. Introduction by Peter Selz -- 11. Fauvism -- 12. Expressionism --- IV. Cubism: form as expression. 13. Introduction --- V. Futurism: dynamism as the expression of the modern world. 14. Introduction by Joshua C. Taylor --- VI. Neoplasticism and constructivism : Abstract and Nonobjective art. 15. Introduction --- VII. Dada, Surrealism, and Scuola Netafisica
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Art- Modern Post-impressionism (Art) Surrealism Symbolism in art Constructivism (Art) Cubism Dadaism Expressionism (Art)