Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics

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University of California Press, 1968 - Art, Modern - 664 pages
Herschel B. Chipp's 'Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book By Artists and Critics' is a collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and interviews. Sources include, as the title says, artists and critics - some expected, like van Gogh, Gauguin, Apollinaire, Mondrian, Greenberg, just to name a few - and some less so: Trotsky and Hitler, in the section on Art and Politics. The book is a wonderful resource and insight into the way artists think and work.
 

Contents

Individual Paths to Construction
11
The Letters of van Gogh
24
SYMBOLISM AND OTHER SUBJECTIVIST
48
Synthetist Theories
58
On His Paintings
67
On Primitivism
78
Symbolist Theories
87
His Collected Writings 110 from a Speech Delivered at
112
DANIELHENRY KAHNWEILER The Rise of Cubism
248
Georges Braque Statement 259 Thoughts and Reflections
262
PABLO PICASSO Statement 263 On Les Demoiselles dAvignon
273
FERNAND LEGER The Aesthetic of the Machine 277 A
279
Dynamism as the Expression of the Modern
281
Dada
376
Surrealism
397
Scuola Metafisica by Joshua C Taylor
445

18911901
120
The Creative
124
Explaining The Dream 1910 129 Inscription for The Dream
141
Form As Expression
193
ANDRÉ SALMON Anecdotal History of Cubism
199
ALBERT GLEIZES and JEAN METZINGER Cubism
207
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE The Beginnings of Cubism 216
220
The Artist and the Social Order
456
The Autonomy of the Work
501
The Europeans
589
APPENDIX
624
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND CREDITS
652
INDEX
661
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