Twentieth Century Theories of Art 9780773596054

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Twentieth Century Theories of Art
 9780773596054

Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Title
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. The Expression Theory: Art and Feeling--Introduction
Leo Tolstoy: Art as Expression
R.G. Collingwood: Art as Expression
Notes
Suggestions for further reading
2. Formalism--Introduction
Roger Fry: An Essay in Aesthetics
Roger Fry: Pure and Impure Art
Clive Bell: The Aesthetic Hypothesis
Clement Greenberg: Modernist Painting
Clement Greenberg: The State of Art Criticism
Notes
Suggestions for further reading
3. The Psychological Approach-- Introduction
Sigmund Freud: The Relation of the Poet to Daydreaming
Sigmund Freud: Phantasy-making and Art
Sigmund Freud: Symbolism in Dreams
C.G. Jung: On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry
Rudolf Arnheim: Balance
Notes
Suggestions for further reading
4. The Sociological Approach--Introduction
Karl Marx: The Materialist Interpretation of History
Karl Marx: Material Production and Artistic Production
Karl Marx: Alienated Labour
Arnold Hauser: The Sociological Method in Art History
Nicos Hadjinicolaou: Art History and Class Struggle
Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez: Art and Society
T.J. Clark: On the Social History of Art
Notes
Suggestions for further reading
5. Semiotics and Structuralism--Introduction
Ernst Cassirer: The Symbolic Function
J .M. Thompson: Panofsky's Iconography and Iconology
Ferdinand de Saussure: General Principles of Linguistics
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology
Claude Levi-Strauss: Structural Analysis of Painting and Music
Claude Levi-Strauss: The Logic of Myth and Bricolage
Roland Barthes: Elements of Semiology
Roland Barthes: Myth Today
Notes
Suggestions for further reading
6. Existentialism and Phenomenology--Introduction
Martin Heidegger: Origin of the Work of Art
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Eye and Mind
Notes
Suggestions for further reading
7. Poststructuralism--Introduction
Julia Kristeva: Motherhood according to Giovanni Bellini
Jacques Derrida: Différance
Jacques Derrida: Writing as Différance
Jacques Derrida: Dissemination
Notes
Suggestions for further reading
8. The Analytical/Linguistic Approach--Introduction
Morris Weitz: The Role of Theory in Aesthetics
John Holloway: The Role of Canons in Criticism
Monroe Beardsley: Propositions in Paintings
Arthur Danto: The Artworld
Notes
Suggestions for further reading

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