Art in Theory 1900-1990

I. The Legacy of Symbolism
		Introduction		13
	IA. Classicism and Originality
1.	Téodor de Wyzewa	'Wagnerian Painting'	1895	17
2.	Paul Signac	from Eugene Delacroix to Neo- Impressionism	1899	20
3.	Paul Gauguin	Letter to Fontainas	1899	23
4.	Sigmund Freud	from 'On Dreams'	1901	26
5.	Otto Weininger	from Sex and Character	1903	34
6.	Paul Cézanne	Letters to Emile Bernard	1904-6	37
7.	Maurice Denis (intro. Roger Fry)	'Cézanne'	1907	40
8.	Maurice Denis	'From Gauguin and van Gogh to Neo-Classicism'	1909	47
9.	Julius Meier-Graefe	'The Mediums of Art, Past and Present'	1904	53
10.	Giorgio de Chirico	'Mystery and Creation'	1913	60
	IB. Expression and the Primitive
1.	August Endell	'The Beauty of Form and Decorative Art'	1897-8	62
2.	André Derain	Letters to Vlaminck	c. 1905-9	65
3.	Ernst Ludwig Kirchner	Programme of the Brücke	1906	67
4.	Wilhelm Worringer	from Abstraction and Empathy	1908	68
5.	Henri Matisse	'Notes of a Painter'	1908	72
6.	Roger Fry	'An Essay in Aesthetics'	1909	78
7.	Wassily Kandinsky	from Concerning the Spiritual in Art	1911	86
8.	Wassily Kandinsky	The Cologne Lecture	1914	94
9.	Franz Marc	The "Savages" of Germany' and 'Two Pictures'	1912	98
10.	August Macke	'Masks'	1912	100
11.	Emil Nolde	'On Primitive Art'	1912	101
12.	Oskar Kokoschka	'On the Nature of Visions'	1912	102
13.	Alexander Shevchenko	'Neo-Primitivism'	1913	104
14.	Benedetto Croce	'What Is Art?'	1913	108
15.	Give Bell	'The Aesthetic Hypothesis'	1914	113
16.	Hermann Bahr	from Expressionism	1916	116
II. The Idea of the Modern World
1.		Introduction		125
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