Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century

Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century
ISBN-10
1134597207
ISBN-13
9781134597208
Series
Key Writers on Art
Category
Art
Pages
325
Language
English
Published
2005-06-27
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Chris Murray

Description

Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring 48 essays on the most important twentieth century writers and thinkers and written by an international panel of expert contributors, it introduces readers to key approaches and analytical tools used in the study of contemporary art. It discusses writers such as Adorno, Barthes, Benjamin, Freud, Greenberg, Heuser, Kristeva, Merleau-Ponty, Pollock, Read and Sontag.

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