Theorizing modernism : visual art and the critical tradition

Author

Drucker, Johanna

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Collection

Interpretations in art.

Source

Theorizing modernism : visual art and the critical tradition. 1994, viii, 201 p., [16] p. of pl., 18 ill.; bibliogr. ref.; index

ISBN

0-231-08082-4

Publisher

Columbia University Press, New York (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

This book proposes a reconsideration of the received tradition of modern art and its history. It draws upon the established critical lineage of modern art, well-known figures, and frequently referred-to texts. It is a review in two senses--a survey and a reexamination--of that received tradition. Very simply, this book puts forth a meta-critical reexamination of canonical 19th-20th c. works: anthologized texts and the images that form the bases of survey courses. Drucker's assumption is that it is precisely through such anthologies, collections and selections that such a tradition has been codified. She organizes her approach around three themes: attitudes toward the space (social, literal, metaphorical) of modernism as representation; assumptions about the ontology of the object (from aesthetic formalism to deconstructionist interpretation); and theories of the production of subjectivity (from artist and viewer to subject position).

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945
• Art
• 1800-2000
• Modernism
• Art criticism
• Art history

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945
• Art
• 1800-2000
• Modernisme
• Critique d'art
• Histoire de l'art

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19950401-00313667

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