Art in Modern Culture: An Anthology of Critical Texts

by Francis Frascina and Open University

Book Overview

This reader for the Open University's course on Modern Art: Practices and Debates presents a selection of key texts, including classic works from the 1930s to the 1960s, alongside contemporary writings, that introduce the reader to many issues on which critics and art historians have focused.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064302245
• ISBN13: 9780064302241
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Age Range: 13 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Good Resource

This book is a good resource for source materials on Modern Art. Usually anthologies give me the willies, but this one is quite comprehensive. I prefer to get my material directly from the source. This gives someone who is unfamiliar with art history a jumping off point for the more serious criticism about this time period in art.

an illuminating collection of essays

Pungent and profoundly moving, the introductory sequences to these seminal essays establish new levels of critical consciousness in that melancholy discipline known as art history. Frascina and Harris, two of our most exalted and distinguished cultural historians, provide a comprehensive survey of the culture-politics interface in C20th society. Consistently devastating and endlessly locked into the real critical issues, this is essential reading for all students of modern visual culture.