Main entry:

Chipp, Herschel Browning.

Title & Author:

Theories of modern art : a source book by artists and critics / Herschel B. Chipp [with] contributions by Peter Selz and Joshua C. Taylor.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1968.

Description:

xv, 664 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Series:

California studies in the history of art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-651) and index.
General introduction -- I. Post-Impressionism: Individual paths to construction and expression. 1. Introduction: The letters of Cézanne -- 2. Paul Cézanne: excerpts from the letters -- 3. Introduction: the letters of van Gogh -- 4. Vincent van Gogh: excerpts from the letters --- II. Symbolism and other Subjectivist tendencies: form and the evocation of feeling. 5. Introduction: Gauguin and other Subjectivists -- 6. Paul Gauguin: synthetist theories -- 7. Gauguin: on his paintings -- 8. Gauguin: on Primitivism -- 9. Symbolist theories --- III. Fauvism and Expressionism: the creative intuition. 10. Introduction by Peter Selz -- 11. Fauvism -- 12. Expressionism --- IV. Cubism: form as expression. 13. Introduction --- V. Futurism: dynamism as the expression of the modern world. 14. Introduction by Joshua C. Taylor --- VI. Neoplasticism and constructivism : Abstract and Nonobjective art. 15. Introduction --- VII. Dada, Surrealism, and Scuola Netafisica.

Summary:

Herschel B. Chipp's 'Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book By Artists and Critics' is a collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and interviews. Sources include, as the title says, artists and critics -- some expected, like van Gogh, Gauguin, Apollinaire, Mondrian, Greenberg, just to name a few -- and some less so: Trotsky and Hitler, in the section on Art and Politics. The book is a wonderful resource and insight into the way artists think and work.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0520052560
9780520052567
0520014502 (pbk.)
9780520014503 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art, Modern 19th century History.
Art, Modern 20th century History.
Surrealism.
Dadaism.
Cubism.
Expressionism (Art)
Constructivism (Art)
Symbolism in art.
Fauvism.
Post-impressionism (Art)
Art 19e siècle Histoire.
Art 20e siècle Histoire.
Surréalisme.
Dadaïsme.
Cubisme.
Expressionnisme (Art)
Constructivisme (Art)
Symbolisme dans l'art.
Fauvisme.
Postimpressionnisme (Art)
Surrealist.
Dada.
Cubist.
Fauve.
Post-Impressionist.
Art, Modern
Kunsttheorie.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Art, Modern 19th century.
Art 19th century History.
Art 20th century History.

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

Selz, Peter, 1919-2019.
Taylor, Joshua C. (Joshua Charles), 1917-1981.
California studies in the history of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 118899
Call No.: ID:86-B4058
Status: Available