"Post-Impressionism to World War II" ed. by Debbie Lewer

Post-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of the best art history writings of the Post-Impressionist period. Several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger knit together primary sources and classic, “canonical” criticism.





• Collects the most important writings on art history from Post-Impressionism to the mid-20th century, covering both canonical and contemporary perspectives
• Offers a chronicle of avant-garde practice during an especially creative, if volatile, period of history
• Features several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger
• Includes recent critical interventions from a range of methodological perspectives – both well-known and less familiar
• Organizes material thematically, and features introductory essays to each of the five sections
• Provides a valuable, stimulating resource for students and teachers alike and offers new ways to think about and teach this important period in art history.

Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Programs and Manifestos : Introduction
1 Post-Impressionism - Roger Fry
2 Why Are We Publishing a Journal? - Ver Sacrum editorial
3 Notes of a Painter - Henri Matisse
4 The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism - F. T. Marinetti
5 Dada Manifesto - Hugo Ball
6 The Work Ahead of Us - Vladimir Tatlin
7 First Manifesto of Surrealism - Andre Breton
8 Introduction to ‘‘New Objectivity’’: German Painting since Expressionism - Gustav Hartlaub

Part II: Spirit and Subjectivity : Introduction
9 Gustave Moreau - Joris-Karl Huysmans
10 Symbolism in Painting: Paul Gauguin - G.-Albert Aurier
11 From Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style - Wilhelm Worringer
12 From On the Spiritual in Art - Wassily Kandinsky
13 Mystery and Creation - Giorgio de Chirico
14 From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Painterly Realism - Kazimir Malevich
15 Neo-Plasticism: The General Principle of Plastic Equivalence - Piet Mondrian

Part III: Mass Culture and Modernity : Introduction
16 The Mass Ornament - Siegfried Kracauer
17 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin
18 Avant-Garde and Kitsch
Clement Greenberg
19 Modernism in the Work of Art - Victor Burgin
20 The Hidden Dialectic: Avantgarde–Technology–Mass Culture - Andreas Huyssen

Part IV: Politics and the Avant-Garde : Introduction
21 The Politics of the Avant-Garde - Raymond Williams
22 From Theory of the Avant-Garde - Peter Burger
23 Jugglers’ Fair Beneath the Gallows - Ernst Bloch
24 Towards a Free Revolutionary Art - Andre Breton, Diego Rivera, and Leon Trotsky
25 The Birth of Socialist Realism from the Spirit of the Russian Avant-Garde - Boris Groys

Part V: Identity and Appropriation : Introduction
26 Going Native - Abigail Solomon-Godeau
27 Virility and Domination in Early Twentieth-Century Vanguard Painting - Carol Duncan
28 Men’s Work? Masculinity and Modernism - Lisa Tickner
29 What the Papers Say: Politics and Ideology in Picasso’s Collages of 1912 - David Cottington
30 Dada as ‘‘Buffoonery and Requiem at the Same Time’’ - Hanne Bergius
31 Surrealism: Fetishism’s Job - Dawn Ades
Index