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by Charles Harrison (Editor), Paul J. Wood (Editor) "At the beginning of the twentieth century, to think of modern art was to think of modern French art ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 1288 pages
  • Publisher: WileyBlackwell; New edition edition (23 Sep 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0631227083
  • ISBN-13: 978-0631227083
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17 x 5.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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"Occasionally one comes across a book that is at once compelling and frightening, a book that excites and disorientates, a book with intimations of the sublime. Art in Theory is such a book. An indispensable source book." (Arlis News–Sheet)


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This popular anthology of twentieth–century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s.
  • New edition of this popular anthology of twentieth–century art–theoretical texts.
  • Now updated to include the results of new research, together with significant contributions from the 1990s.
  • Includes writings by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures.
  • The editors provide contextual introductions to 340 texts.
  • Complements Art in Theory 1648–1815 and Art in Theory 1815–1900 to create a complete survey of the theories underpinning the development of art in the modern period.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential primer & intro to world of theory..., 25 Jun 2003
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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Sadly I've only come across this wonderful book (and its earlier companions) recently- a vast collection of key essays and theories relating to culture in the 20th Century. It certainly beats the **** out of a book like Beginning Theory, which is half the price but much, much shorter. A key book that should be owned by all undergraduates starting Uni operating in the wide remit of humanities. The essays/excerpts are short, easy to read & broken down into eight major sections and subsequent sub-sections. Seriously, this book is packed with the kind of thinking and quotations that should litter any university-standard essay- & also gives you a sample of certain writers- which could then be pursued from this wonderful starting point.

The book has sections on: Classicism & Originality; Expression & the Primitive; Modernity; Cubism; Neo-Classicism & the Call to Order; Dissent & Disorder; Abstraction & Form; Utility & Construction; The Modern as Ideal; Realism as Figuration; Realism as Critique; Modernism as Critique; The American Avant-Garde; Individualism in Europe; Art&Society; Art&Modern Life; Modernist Art; Objecthood&Reductivism; Attitudes to Form; Critical Revisions; The Critique of Originality; Figures of Difference;& The Condition of History. Seriously you could easily read the lot in the first year at uni, setting you up greatly for the harder years that follow...Plenty of key cultural thinkers appear here, a brief survey of the contents pages offers Freud, Rilke, Kandinsky, Croce, Lenin, Wyndham Lewis, Braque, Picasso, Spengler, Duchamp, Man Ray, Tatlin, Klee, Jung, Alfred Rosenberg, John Reed, Trotsky, Breton, Bataille, Brecht, Adorno, Pollock, Sartre, Artaud, Lacan, Camus, Bacon, Schlesinger Jr, Lukacs, Barthes, Raymond Williams,Cage, Warhol, Robbe-Grillet, Derrida, Foucault, Mulvey, Jameson, Said, Baudrillard, Kristeva, Wollen, & just about every major theorist of the 20th Century.

This book is excellent value and the ideal primer for anyone studying any subject relating to theory (pretty much most); only quibble would be the relatively fragile cover, which would require a plastic cover or be easily ruined with the amount of reference to this book that would no doubt occur. OWN!

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5.0 out of 5 stars BUY IT NOW!, 16 April 2006
This review is from: Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Hardcover)
I reluctantly bought this book believing it would join others on my bookshelf, however it has become my primary source of reference before starting any art essay. How did I manage before? For anyone with an interest in Fine Art this is a must have! I've noticed that it is difficult to obtain this book now -Phew! got my copy just in time. Seek it out and but it now!! This is one you really need!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Worth its Weight in Gold!, 31 Mar 2008
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This book is filled to the brim with 371, yes 371 individual sources/texts each with an introduction to contextualise each one. Using it for an essay or dissertation will provide you with quotes that you would not be able to find in other books as well as giving you some of the more obvious source which are great too. It is a big book at 1250 pages which was intimating at first when it dropped through the door but really quickly I discovered that its as good as having a whole library in one book which is just about portable.

This is a great book and when you start using it you will realise what a bargain it is too. Worth its weight in gold
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