Twentieth Century Theories of ArtJames Matheson Thompson This ambitious volume provides a general introduction to the major approaches in this century to art theory and criticism, from the Expression Theory to Poststructuralism. For readers with little or no background, clearly written introductions are provided. The writings collected here are by leaders in each area such as Freud, Barthes, Heidegger and Derrida. The collection is valuable for students of art history, literature and philosophy. |
Contents
13888 | 54 |
57 | 73 |
The Materialist Interpretation of History | 209 |
Art and Society | 239 |
Semiotics and Structuralism | 285 |
Existentialism and Phenomenology | 371 |
Eye and Mind | 415 |
Notes | 425 |
The AnalyticalLinguistic Approach | 503 |
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activity aesthetic analysis art criticism art history artist artworks becomes belongs body Brillo box character Claude Lévi-Strauss CLEMENT GREENBERG color complex concept consciousness creation defined definition Derrida différance dreams elements essential example existence experience expression fact feeling figure Freud Giovanni Bellini Greenberg happens human idea imaginative interpretation Jacques Derrida jouissance kind language Lévi-Strauss linguistic logical look Madonna Marxist material means ment metalanguage metonymy Modernist mother myth nature never objects painter painting person phantasies philosophy picture poet political present problem produced proposition psychical psychoanalysis psychological pure question reality relation representation Roland Barthes Saussure semiology sense sexual signified social society space speak speech structural linguistics structure symbolic T.J. Clark theme theory of art thingly things thought tion true truth uncon unconcealedness unconscious visual ideology whole word writing