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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451041703321

Autore

Harris Jonathan

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Taylor and Francis, an imprint of Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-34682-4

1-280-30264-X

9786610302642

0-203-08703-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

701.18097309045

Soggetti

Art criticism - United States - History - 20th century

Modernism (Art)

Art, Abstract

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Book Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 Modernism�s modern art""; ""Chapter 2 Pure formality""; ""Chapter 3 Pollock, or �abstraction�""; ""Chapter 4 Cubism�s complexities""; ""Chapter 5 The materials of seeing""; ""Chapter 6 Modernism�s Manet""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

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 providesan 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.