Art in Modern Culture
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Book Overview
The traditional discipline of art history has been expanded and challenged by new insights and alternative perspectives, resulting in a series of wide-ranging debates on the status of art and its role in culture and history. This reader for the Open University's course, 'Modern Art: Practices and Debates', presents a radical selection of key texts reflecting the intense debates on art and its social role influenced by feminism, Marxism, social and literary theory, linguistics and anthropology. This anthology introduces the reader to these debates and covers the whole range of issues which critics and art historians have focused, offering classic texts from the 1930s to the 1960s alongside those of contemporary authors engaged in current debate.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0714828408
ISBN13:9780714828404
Release Date:January 1994
Publisher:Phaidon Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"
Age Range:13 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 8 to Postsecondary
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Good Resource
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This book is a good resource for source materials on Modern Art. Usually anthologies give me the willies, but this one is quite comprehensive. I prefer to get my material directly from the source. This gives someone who is unfamiliar with art history a jumping off point for the more serious criticism about this time period in art.
an illuminating collection of essays
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Pungent and profoundly moving, the introductory sequences to these seminal essays establish new levels of critical consciousness in that melancholy discipline known as art history. Frascina and Harris, two of our most exalted and distinguished cultural historians, provide a comprehensive survey of the culture-politics interface in C20th society. Consistently devastating and endlessly locked into the real critical issues, this is essential reading for all students of modern visual culture.
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