Theories of modern art : a source book by artists and critics / [compiled by] Herschel B. Chipp [with] contributions by Peter Selz and Joshua C. Taylor

Chipp, Herschel Browning

1968, Reprint. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #425544
ISBN: 0520052560

Physical description: xv, 664 pages; 23cm. Series: California studies in the history of art. Contents: General introduction -- I. Post-Impressionism: Individual paths to construction and expression. 1. Introduction: The letters of Cezanne -- 2. Paul Cezanne: 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. Subjects: 1800-1999 1900-1999 Art, Modern 19th century History. Art, Modern 20th century History. Surrealism. Dadaism. Cubism. Expressionism (Art). Constructivism (Art) Symbolism in art.

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