Francis Frascina

Art in Modern Culture (Open University Set Book)

Charles Harrison

Professor Francis Frascina

Gillian Perry

The Early Twentieth Century

Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction

John Harris

Paul Wood

Jonathan Harris

This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The books provide an introduction to modern European and American art and criticism that should be valuable both to students and to the general reader.

Art Since the Forties

Modernism in Dispute

Modern Art Culture: A Reader provides an essential resource for understanding the culture of modern art since the 1960s. In recent years, media theorists and historians have asked whether works of imaginative art can have any impact in our image-saturated culture. Given the power of institutions, how do radical artists produce effective cultural interventions? In the aftermath of September 11th, 2001, many argue that pressing questions about works of art and their meanings are inseparable not only from contemporary social and political issues but also from major debates and developments in the last four decades. To explore such questions and issues, the Reader is divided into six related parts with articles from journals, magazines and exhibition catalogues that exemplify important interventions from the 1960s onwards: Histories, Representations and Remembrance; Art and Visual/Mass/Popular Culture; Institutions; Inclusions/Exclusions; Bodies and Identities; Power and Permissibility. Texts range from artists' engagement with the veil and veiling as metaphors for post-colonialist understandings of representation and contemporary art to early debates about, for example, 'activist art', discourses of the 'body', civil rights, ethnicity, and cultural power. Importantly these selected texts offer examples of analysis that can enable readers to examine, critically, their own selection of representations produced in a variety of contexts.

A Reader

Modern Art Culture

This revised edition of Pollock and After features ten new articles and is fully updated to take account of new critical approaches to post-war American art.

The Critical Debate

Pollock and After

Briony Fer

Nigel Blake

Tamar Garb

Esta obra analiza la historia de la pintura francesa en el siglo XIX tratando de definir qué es moderno de aquella pintura y en qué radica, relacionándolo con las transformaciones de París -especialmente bajo los auspicios del barón Haussman-, con la mentalidad y usos de la burguesía del momento, y con la capacidad de esa pintura de reflejar todos los cambios que se estaban produciendo en el entorno y en la sociedad.

La modernidad y lo moderno

Francis Frascina

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