Art in Theory 1900-1990
Contents
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| I. The Legacy of Symbolism | |||||
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| 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 | |||||
| Introduction | 125 | ||||
| IIa. Modernity | |||||
| 1. | Georg Simmel | 'The Metropolis and Mental Life' | 1902-3 | 130 | |
| 2. | Max Weber | 'Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism' | 1904-5 | 135 | |
| 3. | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | 'Party Organization and Party Literature' | 1905 | 136 | |
| 4. | Henri Bergson | from Creative Evolution | 1907 | 140 | |
| 5. | Alexander Blok | 'Nature and Culture' | 1908 | 143 | |
| 6. | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti | 'The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism' | 1909 | 145 | |
| 7. | Umberto Boccioni et al. | 'Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto' | 1910 | 149 | |
| 8. | Robert Delaunay | 'On the Construction of Reality in Pure Painting' | 1912 | 152 | |
| 9. | Percy Wyndham Lewis | 'Our Vortex' | 1914 | 154 | |
| 10. | Franz Marc | 'Foreword' | 1914 | 156 | |
| 11. | Fernand Leger | 'Contemporary Achievements in Painting' | 1914 | 157 | |
| 12. | Henri Gaudier-Brzeska | 'Gaudier-Brzeska Vortex' 1914, and 'Vortex Gaudier-Brzeska' | 1915 | 160 | |
| 13. | Karl Kraus | from 'In These Great Times' | 1914 | 163 | |
| 14. | Kasimir Malevich | From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting | 1915-16 | 166 | |
| IIb. Cubism | |||||
| 1. | Jean Metzinger | 'Note on Painting' | 1910 | 177 | |
| 2. | Guillaume Apollinaire | 'The Cubists' | 1911 | 178 | |
| 3. | Guillaume Apollinaire | 'On the Subject in Modern Painting' | 1912 | 179 | |
| 4. | Guillaume Apollinaire | 'The New Painting: Art Notes' | 1912 | 181 | |
| 5. | Guillaume Apollinaire | from The Cubist Painters | 1912 | 182 | |
| 6. | Jacques Rivière | 'Present Tendencies in Painting' | 1912 | 183 | |
| 7. | Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger | from Cubism | 1912 | 187 | |
| 8. | Fernand Léger | 'The Origins of Painting and its Representational Value' | 1913 | 196 | |
| 9. | Olga Rozanova | 'The Bases of the New Creation' | 1913 | 199 | |
| 10. | Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler | from The Rise of Cubism | 1915-20 | 203 | |
| 11. | Georges Braque | 'Thoughts on Painting' | 1917 | 209 | |
| 12. | Pablo Picasso | 'Picasso Speaks' | 1923 | 210 | |
| III. Rationalization and Transformation | |||||
| Introduction | 217 | ||||
| IIIa. Neo-Classicism and the Call to Order | |||||
| 1. | Amédée Ozenfant | 'Notes on Cubism' | 1916 | 223 | |
| 2. | Guillaume Apollinaire | 'The New Spirit and the Poets' | 1918 | 225 | |
| 3. | Oswald Spengler | from The Decline of the West | 1918 | 227 | |
| 4. | Carlo Carrà | 'Our Antiquity' | 1916-18 | 229 | |
| 5. | Léonce Rosenberg | 'Tradition and Cubism' | 1919 | 234 | |
| 6. | Giorgio de Chirico | The Return of the Craft' | 1919 | 234 | |
| 7. | Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) and Amédée Ozenfant | 'Purism' | 1920 | 237 | |
| 8. | Albert Gleizes | 'The Dada Case' | 1920 | 240 | |
| 9. | André Derain | 'On Raphael' | 1920 | 243 | |
| 10. | Percy Wyndham Lewis | 'The Children of the New Epoch' | 1921 | 244 | |
| 11. | Juan Gris | Reply to a Questionnaire | 1921 | 245 | |
| IIIb. Dissent and Disorder | |||||
| 1. | Hugo Ball | 'Dada Fragments' | 1916-17 | 246 | |
| 2. | Marcel Duchamp | 'The Richard Mutt Case' | 1917 | 248 | |
| 3. | Tristan Tzara | 'Dada Manifesto 1918' | 1918 | 248 | |
| 4. | Richard Huelsenbeck | 'First German Dada Manifesto' | 1918-20 | 253 | |
| 5. | Richard Huelsenbeck and Raoul Hausmann | 'What is Dadaism and what does it want in Germany?' | 1918/19 | 256 | |
| 6. | Richard Huelsenbeck | from En Avant Dada | 1920 | 257 | |
| 7. | Alexander Blok | The Decline of Humanism' | 1918 | 260 | |
| 8. | Novembergruppe | Draft Manifesto 1918 and 'Guidelines' | 1919 | 262 | |
| 9. | Novembergruppe Opposition | 'Open Letter to the Novembergruppe' | 1921 | 264 | |
| 10. | Walter Gropius | Reply to Arbeitsrat für Kunst Questionnaire | 1919 | 266 | |
| 11. | Max Beckmann | 'Creative Credo' | 1918-20 | 267 | |
| 12. | Max Pechstein | 'Creative Credo' | 1920 | 269 | |
| 13. | George Grosz | 'My New Pictures' | 1921 | 270 | |
| 14. | Francis Picabia | Thank you, Francis!' | 1923 | 272 | |
| IIIc. Abstraction and Form | |||||
| 1. | Man Ray | Statement | 1916 | 274 | |
| 2. | Viktor Shklovsky | from 'Art as Technique' | 1917 | 274 | |
| 3. | De Stijl | 'Manifesto 1' | 1918 | 278 | |
| 4. | Theo van Doesburg | from Principles of Neo-Plastic Art | 1915-25 | 279 | |
| 5. | Piet Mondrian | 'Dialogue on the New Plastic' | 1919 | 282 | |
| 6. | Piet Mondrian | Neo-Plasticism: the General Principle of Plastic Equivalence | 1920-21 | 287 | |
| 7. | Kasimir Malevich | 'Non-Objective Art and Suprematism' | 1919 | 290 | |
| 8. | Kasimir Malevich | The Question of Imitative Art | 1920 | 292 | |
| 9. | Naum Gabo and Anton Pevsner | 'The Realistic Manifesto' | 1920 | 297 | |
| 10. | UNOVIS | 'Programme of a United Audience in Painting of the Vitebsk State Free Workshops' | 1920 | 299 | |
| 11. | Wassily Kandinsky | 'Plan for the Physico-psychological Department of the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences' | 1921 | 301 | |
| 12. | El Lissitsky | 'A. and Pangeometry' | 1925 | 303 | |
| IIId. Utility and Construction | |||||
| 1. | KOMFUT | 'Programme Declaration' | 1919 | 308 | |
| 2. | Vladimir Tatlin | 'The Initiative Individual in the Collective' | 1919 | 309 | |
| 3. | Lyubov Popova | Catalogue Statement | 1919 | 310 | |
| 4. | Nikolai Punin | 'The Monument to the Third International' | 1920 | 311 | |
| 5. | Alexander Rodchenko | 'Slogans' and 'Organizational Programme' | 1920-21 | 315 | |
| 6. | Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova | 'Programme of the First Working Group of Constructivists' | 1922 | 317 | |
| 7. | Alexei Gan | from Constructivism | 1922 | 318 | |
| 8. | El Lissitsky and Ilya Ehrenberg | Statement by the Editors of Veshch | 1922 | 320 | |
| 9. | LEF editorial | Whom is LEF Alerting? 1 | 1923 | 321 | |
| 10. | Osip Brik | 'The So-called "Formal Method"' | 1923 | 323 | |
| 11. | Osip Brik | 'From Picture to Calico-Print' | 1924 | 324 | |
| 12. | Vladimir Tatlin | 'Report of the Section for Material Culture's Research Work' | 1924 | 328 | |
| IV. Freedom, Responsibility and Power | |||||
| Introduction | 333 | ||||
| IVa. The Modern as Ideal | |||||
| 1. | Walter Gropius | 'The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus' | 1923 | 338 | |
| 2. | Paul Klee | from On Modern Art | 1924 | 343 | |
| 3. | Hart Crane | 'General Aims and Theories' | 1925 | 350 | |
| 4. | Amédée Ozenfant | from Foundations of Modern Art | 1928 | 351 | |
| 5. | Hans Hofmann | 'On the Aims of Art' | 1931 | 354 | |
| 6. | Abstraction-Création | Editorial Statements | 1932/1933 | 357 | |
| 7. | Wladyslaw Strzeminski | Statements | 1932/1933 | 359 | |
| 8. | Alfred H. Barr Jr | from Cubism and Abstract Art | 1936 | 361 | |
| 9. | Henri Matisse | Statements to Tériade | 1936 | 363 | |
| 10. | Naum Gabo | 'The Constructive Idea in Art' | 1937 | 365 | |
| 11. | Piet Mondrian | 'Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art' | 1937 | 368 | |
| 12. | Barbara Hepworth | 'Sculpture' | 1937 | 374 | |
| 13. | American Abstract Artists | Editorial Statement | 1938 | 377 | |
| 14. | Ibram Lassaw | 'On Inventing Our Own Art' | 1938 | 378 | |
| 15. | Ben Nicholson | 'Notes on Abstract Art' | 1941 | 380 | |
| IVb. Realism as Figuration | |||||
| 1. | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | 'On Proletarian Culture' | 1920 | 383 | |
| 2. | AKhRR | 'Declaration' | 1922 | 384 | |
| 3. | AKhRR | 'The Immediate Tasks of AKhRR' | 1924 | 385 | |
| 4. | David A. Siqueiros et al. | 'A Declaration of Social, Political and Aesthetic Principles' | 1922 | 387 | |
| 5. | Red Group | 'Manifesto' | 1924 | 388 | |
| 6. | Otto Dix | 'The Object Is Primary' | 1927 | 389 | |
| 7. | ARBKD (Asso) | 'Manifesto' and 'Statutes' | 1928 | 390 | |
| 8. | George Grosz | from 'My Life' | 1928 | 393 | |
| 9. | Alfred Rosenberg | from 'The Myth of the Twentieth Century' | 1930 | 393 | |
| 10. | Georg Lukács | '"Tendency" or Partisanship?' | 1932 | 395 | |
| 11. | Central Committee of the Ail-Union Communist Party | 'Decree on the Reconstruction of Literary and Artistic Organizations' | 1932 | 400 | |
| 12. | John Reed Club of New York | 'Draft Manifesto' | 1932 | 401 | |
| 13. | Diego Rivera | 'The Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art' | 1932 | 404 | |
| 14. | Mario Sironi | 'Manifesto of Mural Painting' | 1933 | 407 | |
| 15. | Andrei Zhdanov | 'Speech to the Congress of Soviet Writers' | 1934 | 409 | |
| 16. | David A. Siqueiros | 'Towards a Transformation of the Plastic Arts' | 1934 | 412 | |
| 17. | Stuart Davis and Clarence Weinstock | 'Abstract Painting in America', 'Contradictions in Abstractions' and 'A Medium of 2 Dimensions' | 1935 | 415 | |
| 18. | Grant Wood | from Revolt Against the City | 1935 | 418 | |
| 19. | Francis Klingender | 'Content and Form in Art' | 1935 | 421 | |
| 20. | Adolf Hitler | Speech Inaugurating the 'Great Exhibition of German Art' | 1937 | 423 | |
| IVc. Realism as Critique | |||||
| 1. | Leon Trotsky | from Literature and Revolution | 1922-3 | 427 | |
| 2. | André Breton | from the First Manifesto of Surrealism | 1924 | 432 | |
| 3. | Louis Aragon et al. | 'Declaration of the Bureau de Recherches Surréalistes' | 1925 | 439 | |
| 4. | André Breton | Surrealism and Painting | 1928 | 440 | |
| 5. | André Breton | from the Second Manifesto of Surrealism | 1929 | 446 | |
| 6. | George Grosz and Wieland Herzfelde | 'Art Is in Danger' | 1925 | 450 | |
| 7. | Osip Brik | 'Photography versus Painting' | 1926 | 454 | |
| 8. | Sergei Tretyakov | 'We Are Searching 1 and 'We Raise the Alarm' | 1927 | 457 | |
| 9. | Siegfried Kracauer | from 'The Mass Ornament' | 1927 | 462 | |
| 10. | October (Association of Artistic Labour) | 'Declaration' | 1928 | 465 | |
| 11. | V. N. Vološinov | from Marxism and the Philosophy of Language | 1929 | 467 | |
| 12. | Georges Bataille | from 'Critical Dictionary' | 1929-30 | 474 | |
| 13. | Georges Bataille | 'The Lugubrious Game'' | 1929 | 476 | |
| 14. | Salvador Dali | 'The Stinking Ass' | 1930 | 478 | |
| 15. | Walter Benjamin | Letter to Gershom Scholem | 1931 | 481 | |
| 16. | Walter Benjamin | 'The Author as Producer' | 1934 | 483 | |
| 17. | Bertolt Brecht | 'Popularity and Realism' | 1938 | 489 | |
| 18. | Fernand Léger | 'The New Realism Goes On' | 1936 | 493 | |
| IVd. Modernism as Critique | |||||
| 1. | Kasimir Malevich | Letter to Meyerhold | 1932 | 497 | |
| 2. | Pablo Picasso | 'Conversation with Picasso' | 1935 | 498 | |
| 3. | Herbert Read | 'What Is Revolutionary Art?' | 1935 | 502 | |
| 4. | Meyer Schapiro | 'The Social Bases of Art' | 1936 | 506 | |
| 5. | Jan Mukařovský | from Aesthetic Function | 1934/36 | 511 | |
| 6. | Walter Benjamin | 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' | 1936 | 512 | |
| 7. | Theodor Adorno | Letter to Benjamin | 1936 | 520 | |
| 8. | Ernst Bloch | 'Discussing Expressionism' | 1938 | 523 | |
| 9. | André Breton, Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky | 'Towards a Free Revolutionary Art' | 1938 | 526 | |
| 10. | Clement Greenberg | 'Avant-Garde and Kitsch' | 1939 | 529 | |
| 11. | Harold Rosenberg | 'The Fall of Paris' | 1940 | 541 | |
| V. The Individual and the Social | |||||
| Introduction | 549 | ||||
| Va. The American Avant-Garde | |||||
| 1. | Clement Greenberg | 'Towards a Newer Laocoon' | 1940 | 554 | |
| 2. | Jackson Pollock | Answers to a Questionnaire | 1944 | 560 | |
| 3. | Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko with Barnett Newman | Statement | 1943 | 561 | |
| 4. | Mark Rothko | 'The Romantics were Prompted . . . ' | 1947 | 563 | |
| 5. | Adolph Gottlieb | Statement | 1947 | 564 | |
| 6. | Mark Rothko | Statement | 1947 | 565 | |
| 7. | Barnett Newman | 'The Ideographic Picture' | 1947 | 565 | |
| 8. | Barnett Newman | 'The First Man Was an Artist' | 1947 | 566 | |
| 9. | Clement Greenberg | 'The Decline of Cubism' | 1948 | 569 | |
| 10. | Barnett Newman | 'The Sublime Is Now' | 1948 | 572 | |
| 11. | Jackson Pollock | Interview with William Wright | 1950 | 574 | |
| 12. | David Smith | 'Aesthetics, the Artist and the Audience' | 1952 | 578 | |
| 13. | Clyfford Still | Statement | 1952 | 580 | |
| 14. | Harold Rosenberg | from 'The American Action Painters' | 1952 | 581 | |
| 15. | Clyfford Still | Letter to Gordon Smith | 1959 | 584 | |
| Vb. Individualism in Europe | |||||
| 1. | Jean-Paul Sartre | from Existentialism and Humanism | 1946 | 587 | |
| 2. | Jean Dubuffet | 'Notes for the Well-Lettered' | 1946 | 590 | |
| 3. | Jean Dubuffet | 'Crude Art Preferred to Cultural Art' | 1948 | 593 | |
| 4. | Antonin Artaud | from Van Gogh: the Man Suicided by Society | 1947 | 595 | |
| 5. | Jean-Paul Sartre | 'The Search for the Absolute' | 1948 | 599 | |
| 6. | Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit | from Three Dialogues | 1949 | 605 | |
| 7. | Jacques Lacan | 'The Mirror-Phase as Formative of the Function of the I' | 1949 | 609 | |
| 8. | Jean-Michel Atlan | 'Abstraction and Adventure in Contemporary Art' | 1950 | 613 | |
| 9. | Francis Ponge | 'Reflections on the Statuettes, Figures and Paintings of Alberto Giacometti' | 1951 | 614 | |
| 10. | Albert Camus | 'Creation and Revolution' | 1951 | 615 | |
| 11. | Michel Tapié | from An Other Art | 1952 | 619 | |
| 12. | Georg Baselitz | 'Pandemonium Manifestos 1 | 1961-2 | 621 | |
| 13. | Francis Bacon | Interview with David Sylvester | 1962-3 | 625 | |
| Vc. Art and Society | |||||
| 1. | Maurice de Vlaminck | 'Open Opinions on Painting' | 1942 | 630 | |
| 2. | Francis Klingender | from Marxism and Modern Art | 1943 | 631 | |
| 3. | Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer | 'The Parable of the Oarsmen' | 1944 | 633 | |
| 4. | Robert Motherwell | 'The Modern Painter's World' | 1944 | 635 | |
| 5. | Pablo Picasso | 'Why I Joined the Communist Party' | 1944 | 638 | |
| 6. | Pablo Picasso | Statement to Simone Téry | 1945 | 639 | |
| 7. | Fernand Léger | 'The Human Body Considered as an Object' | 1945 | 640 | |
| 8. | Lucio Fontana | 'The White Manifesto' | 1946 | 642 | |
| 9. | Vladimir Kemenov | from 'Aspects of Two Cultures' | 1947 | 647 | |
| 10. | Robert Motherwell and Harold Rosenberg | 'The Question of What Will Emerge Is Left Open' | 1947/8 | 649 | |
| 11. | Constant | 'Our Own Desires Build the Revolution' | 1949 | 650 | |
| 12. | Asger Jorn | 'Forms Conceived as Language' | 1949 | 651 | |
| 13. | André Fougeron | 'The Painter on his Battlement' | 1948 | 652 | |
| 14. | George Dondero | from The Congressional Record | 1949 | 654 | |
| 15. | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr | from The Politics of Freedom | 1950 | 658 | |
| 16. | Alfred H. Barr Jr | 'Is Modern Art Communistic?' | 1952 | 660 | |
| 17. | David Smith | 'Economic Support of Art in America Today' | 1953 | 663 | |
| 18. | Ben Shahn | 'The Artist and the Politician' | 1953 | 665 | |
| 19. | Henry Moore | 'The Sculptor in Modern Society' | 1952 | 669 | |
| 20. | David A Siqueiros | 'Open Letter to the Painters, Sculptors and Engravers of the Soviet Union' | 1955 | 672 | |
| 21. | Georg Lukács | 'The Ideology of Modernism' | 1958 | 675 | |
| VI. Modernization and Modernism | |||||
| Introduction | 683 | ||||
| VIa. The American Avant-Garde | |||||
| 1. | Roland Barthes | from 'Myth Today' | 1956 | 687 | |
| 2. | Guy Debord | Writings from the Situationist International | 1957-61 | 693 | |
| 3. | Lawrence Alloway | 'The Arts and the Mass Media' | 1958 | 700 | |
| 4. | Alan Kaprow | from Assemblages, Environments and Happenings | 1959-65 | 703 | |
| 5. | Piero Manzoni | 'Free Dimension' | 1960 | 709 | |
| 6. | Pierre Restany | 'The New Realists' | 1960 | 711 | |
| 7. | Raymond Williams | 'The Analysis of Culture' | 1961 | 712 | |
| 8. | John Cage | 'On Robert Rauschenberg, Artist, and his Work' | 1961 | 717 | |
| 9. | Jasper Johns | Interview with David Sylvester | 1965 | 721 | |
| 10. | Richard Hamilton | 'For the Finest Art, Try Pop' | 1961 | 726 | |
| 11. | Claes Oldenburg | 'I Am for an Art . . . ' | 1961 | 727 | |
| 12. | Andy Warhol | Interview with Gene Swenson | 1963 | 730 | |
| 13. | Roy Lichtenstein | Lecture to the College Art Association | 1964 | 733 | |
| 14. | George Kubler | from The Shape of Time | 1962 | 735 | |
| 15. | Marshall McLuhan | from Understanding Media | 1964 | 738 | |
| 16. | Tony Smith | from Interview with Samuel Wagstaff Jr | 1966 | 741 | |
| VIb. Modernist Art | |||||
| 1. | Alain Robbe-Grillet | 'Commitment* | 1957 | 744 | |
| 2. | David Smith | 'Tradition and Identity' | 1959 | 748 | |
| 3. | Maurice Merleau-Ponty | from 'Eye and Mind' | 1961 | 750 | |
| 4. | Clement Greenberg | 'Modernist Painting' | 1960-65 | 754 | |
| 5. | Theodor Adorno | from 'Commitment' | 1962 | 760 | |
| 6. | Barnett Newman | Interview with Dorothy Gees Seckler | 1962 | 764 | |
| 7. | Clement Greenberg | from 'After Abstract Expressionism' | 1962 | 766 | |
| 8. | Michael Fried | from Three American Painters | 1965 | 769 | |
| 9. | Michael Fried | from 'Shape as Form: Frank Stella's New Paintings' | 1966 | 775 | |
| 10. | Jules Olitski | 'Painting in Color' | 1967 | 778 | |
| 11. | Stanley Cavell | 'A Matter of Meaning It' | 1967 | 779 | |
| 12. | William Tucker and Tim Scott | 'Reflections on Sculpture' | 1967 | 784 | |
| 13. | Richard Wollheim | 'The Work of Art as Object' | 1970 | 787 | |
| VII. Institutions and Objections | |||||
| Introduction | 797 | ||||
| VIIa. Objecthood and Reductivism | |||||
| 1. | Yves Klein | Sorbonne Lecture | 1959 | 803 | |
| 2. | Frank Stella | Pratt Institute Lecture | 1959-60 | 805 | |
| 3. | Ad Reinhardt | 'Art as Art' | 1962 | 806 | |
| 4. | Donald Judd | 'Specific Objects' | 1965 | 809 | |
| 5. | Robert Morris | 'Notes on Sculpture 1-3' | 1966-7 | 813 | |
| 6. | Michael Fried | 'Art and Objecthood' | 1967 | 822 | |
| 7. | Sol LeWitt | 'Paragraphs on Conceptual Art' | 1967 | 834 | |
| 8. | Sol LeWitt | 'Sentences on Conceptual Art' | 1969 | 837 | |
| 9. | Robert Barry | Interview with Arthur R. Rose | 1969 | 839 | |
| 10. | Joseph Kosuth | 'Art after Philosophy' | 1969 | 840 | |
| 11. | Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, Niele Toroni | Statement | 1967 | 850 | |
| 12. | Daniel Buren | 'Beware' | 1969-70 | 850 | |
| VIIb. Attitudes to Form | |||||
| 1. | Terry Atkinson and Michael Baldwin | 'Air Show' | 1967 | 858 | |
| 2. | Robert Smithson | 'A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects' | 1968 | 863 | |
| 3. | Robert Morris | 'Notes on Sculpture 4: Beyond Objects' | 1969 | 868 | |
| 4. | Art & Language | Editorial introduction to Art-Language | 1969 | 873 | |
| 5. | Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden | 'The Role of Language' | 1969 | 879 | |
| 6. | Lawrence Weiner | Statements | 1969-72 | 882 | |
| 7. | Victor Burgin | 'Situational Aesthetics' | 1969 | 883 | |
| 8. | John A. Murphy | Sponsor's Statement for 'When Attitudes become Form' | 1969 | 885 | |
| 9. | Germano Celant | from Art Povera | 1969 | 886 | |
| 10. | Joseph Beuys | 'Not Just a Few Are Called, But Everyone' | 1972 | 889 | |
| VIIc. Political Aspects | |||||
| 1. | Lucy Lippard | 'Interview with Ursula Meyer' 1969 and 'Postface' to Six Years | 1973 | 893 | |
| 2. | Artforum | from 'The Artist and Politics: a Symposium' | 1970 | 896 | |
| 3. | Art Workers' Coalition | Statement of Demands | 1970 | 901 | |
| 4. | Joseph Beuys | 'I Am Searching for Field Character' | 1974 | 902 | |
| 5. | Hans Haacke | Statement | 1974 | 904 | |
| 6. | Mel Ramsden | from 'On Practice' | 1975 | 905 | |
| 7. | Ian Burn | 'The Art Market: Affluence and Degradation' | 1975 | 908 | |
| 8. | Victor Burgin | from 'Socialist Formalism' | 1976 | 911 | |
| 9. | Art & Language | Editorial to Art-Language | 1976 | 916 | |
| VIId. Critical Revisions | |||||
| 1. | Jacques Derrida | from Of Grammatology | 1967 | 918 | |
| 2. | Michel Foucault | 'What Is an Author?' | 1969 | 923 | |
| 3. | Louis Althusser | from 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' | 1970 | 928 | |
| 4. | Thomas Kuhn | from 'Postscript - 1969' | 1970 | 936 | |
| 5. | Roland Barthes | 'From Work to Text' | 1971 | 940 | |
| 6. | Robert Smithson | 'Cultural Confinement' | 1972 | 946 | |
| 7. | Leo Steinberg | from Other Criteria | 1968-72 | 948 | |
| 8. | Rosalind Krauss | 'A View of Modernism' | 1972 | 953 | |
| 9. | Jean Baudrillard | 'Ethic of Labour, Aesthetic of Play' | 1973 | 957 | |
| 10. | Julia Kristeva | 'Prolegomenon' to Revolution in Poetic Language | 1974 | 960 | |
| 11. | Laura Mulvey | from 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' | 1973/75 | 963 | |
| 12. | Michel Foucault | A Lecture | 1976 | 970 | |
| 13. | Fredric Jameson | from 'Reflections on the Brecht-Lukacs Debate' | 1977 | 976 | |
| 14. | Raymond Williams | 'Dominant, Residual and Emergent' | 1977 | 979 | |
| VIII. Ideas of the Postmodern | |||||
| Introduction | 987 | ||||
| VIIIa. The Condition of History | |||||
| 1. | Daniel Bell | from 'Modernism and Capitalism' | 1978 | 993 | |
| 2. | Jean-François Lyotard | Introduction to The Postmodern Condition | 1979 | 998 | |
| 3. | Jürgen Habermas | 'Modernity - An Incomplete Project' | 1980 | 1000 | |
| 4. | Jean-François Lyotard | 'What Is Postmodernism?' | 1982 | 1008 | |
| 5. | Julia Kristeva | 'Powers of Horror' | 1980 | 1015 | |
| 6. | Art & Language | 'Art & Language Paints a Picture' | 1983 | 1018 | |
| 7. | Donald Judd | from '... not about master-pieces but why there are so few of them' | 1984 | 1028 | |
| 8. | Joseph Beuys, Jannis Kounellis, Anselm Kiefer, Enzo Cucchi | from 'The Cultural-Historical Tragedy of the European Continent' | 1985 | 1032 | |
| 9. | Gerhard Richter | from 'Interview with Benjamin Buchloh' | 1986 | 1036 | |
| 10. | Gerhard Richter | Notes | 1990 | 1047 | |
| VIIIb. The Critique of Originality | |||||
| 1. | Jean Baudrillard | 'The Hyper-realism of Simulation' | 1976 | 1049 | |
| 2. | Craig Owens | from 'The Allegorical Impulse: Towards a Theory of Postmodernism' | 1980 | 1051 | |
| 3. | Rosalind Krauss | from 'The Originality of the Avant-Garde' | 1981 | 1060 | |
| 4. | Hal Foster | from 'Subversive Signs' | 1982 | 1065 | |
| 5. | Sherrie Levine | Statement | 1982 | 1066 | |
| 6. | Art & Language | 'Letter to a Canadian Curator' | 1982 | 1067 | |
| 7. | Barbara Kruger | '"Taking" Pictures' | 1982 | 1070 | |
| 8. | Peter Halley | 'Nature and Culture' | 1983 | 1071 | |
| 9. | Fredric Jameson | 'The Deconstruction of Expression' | 1984 | 1074 | |
| 10. | Haim Steinbach, Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, Philip Taaffe, Peter Halley, Ashley Bickerton | 'From Criticism to Complicity' | 1986 | 1080 | |
| 11. | Julia Kristeva | Interview with Catherine Francblin | 1986 | 1084 | |
| VIIIc. Figures of Difference | |||||
| 1. | Edward Said | from 'Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community' | 1981 | 1086 | |
| 2. | Mary Kelly | 'Re-Viewing Modernist Criticism' | 1981 | 1088 | |
| 3. | Krzysztof Wodiczko | 'Public Projection' | 1983 | 1094 | |
| 4. | Victor Burgin | from 'The Absence of Presence' | 1984 | 1097 | |
| 5. | Jacqueline Rose | 'Sexuality in the Field of Vision' | 1984/85 | 1101 | |
| 6. | W. J. T. Mitchell | 'Image and Word' and 'Mute Poesy and Blind Painting' | 1986 | 1106 | |
| 7. | Flint Schier | 'Painting after Art?: Comments on Wollheim | 1987/91 | 1111 | |
| 8. | Raymond Williams | 'When Was Modernism?' | 1987/89 | 1116 | |
| 9. | Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak | 'Who Claims Alterity?' | 1989 | 1119 | |
| 10. | Richard Serra | from The Yale Lecture | 1990 | 1124 | |