Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century

Chris Murray, Chris Murray

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9781134597208
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Kunst
• Subtopic: Kunsttheorie & -kritik

Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring 48 essays on the most important twentieth century writers and thinkers and written by an international panel of expert contributors, it introduces readers to key approaches and analytical tools used in the study of contemporary art. It discusses writers such as Adorno, Barthes, Benjamin, Freud, Greenberg, Heuser, Kristeva, Merleau-Ponty, Pollock, Read and Sontag.

Index

Abstract Expressionism 5, 71, 149, 151, 242–3

abstraction 71, 149, 154, 242; African decorative forms 194, 196–7; in art of primitive man 288; Worringer’s ideas 287, 288, 289–90, 290–1

Academy: undermining of by avant-garde 58–9

Adami, Valerio 202

Adorno, Theodor 3–8, 180, 240, 244

advertising 28, 29, 43, 54

aesthetic emotion: addressed by Lévi-Strauss 186, 187, 187–8

Aestheticism 159

aesthetics: Adorno’s critique 4; A.L. Locke’s theory 193, 195; in Baudrillard’s writings 28–9, 29–30; Bell’s theory 38, 39–41; Benjamin’s theory 44–5; Berger’s concern with the social 50; Bourdieu’s ideas 57–8; Burke’s influence on contemporaries 201; classical 44, 47, 283; Croce 81–2; Damisch’s psychoanalysis of 88; deconstructionist 98, 100–1; Dewey’s views 104, 106–7; Foucault’s work 113, 114–15; Fry’s theory 32, 125–7; Gadamer 130–1; Goodman 143, 147–8; Greenberg on judgements 153–4; importance of Stokes 256; integration with commodity 28–9; Kristeva’s views 170–1, 171–2; Lyotard’s contribution to theory 199; Modernism 106; positivist writers on art 34; Simmel’s theory 245–6, 247, 248; and understanding beauty 186; Wittgenstein’s philosophy 269, 270, 273; Wölfflin’s ideas 276; Wollheim’s writings 281; Worringer’s views 286–7, 288

African art: and African-American cultural expression 193–4, 196–7; A.L. Locke’s support of 193, 196–7; Fry’s work 125

African masks 38

African-Americans: A.L. Locke’s view of cultural progress 192–7

Agostino di Duccio 259

Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius 224

Albers, Josef 106

Albert Memorial 257

Alberti, Leon Battista 259

Albi: Mâle’s study 206–7

Algeria: Bourdieu’s study of Kabylean villages 56

allegory: Benjamin’s study of Baroque 47–8; Croce’s view 82

allographic art 146

Alpers, Svetlana 85

Althusser, Louis 231, 244

American art: integration of Negro subject into 195

Amerindians: Lévi-Strauss’s study of mythology 186, 188–9; see also Pueblo Indians

anarchism: artists in Clark’s studies 72; Read’s perspective 235

ancient world: in Foucault’s historical framework 113, 114; see also Antiquity; classical Greece; Egyptian art

Angelico, Fra 128

Antal, Frederick 50

anthropology 27, 176, 186, 187–8, 263

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