Post-Impressionism to World War II [Hardcover]

Post-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of the best art history writings of the Post-Impressionist period. Several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger knit together primary sources and classic, “canonical” criticism.

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• Collects the most important writings on art history from Post-Impressionism to the mid-20th century, covering both canonical and contemporary perspectives
  
• Offers a chronicle of avant-garde practice during an especially creative, if volatile, period of history
  
• Features several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger
  
• Includes recent critical interventions from a range of methodological perspectives – both well-known and less familiar
  
• Organizes material thematically, and features introductory essays to each of the five sections
  
• Provides a valuable, stimulating resource for students and teachers alike and offers new ways to think about and teach this important period in art history.

Series Editor’s Preface.

Preface.

Acknowledgments..

Part I: Programs and Manifestos. .

Introduction.

1 Post-Impressionism (Roger Fry).

2 Why are we publishing a journal (Ver Sacrum editorial).

3 Notes of a Painter (Henri Matisse).

4 The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism (F.T. Marinetti).

5 Dada Manifesto (Hugo Ball).

6 The Work Ahead of Us (Vladimir Tatlin).

7 First Manifesto of Surrealism (André Breton).