Overview

The book presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the 20th century. The authors begin by exploring how aspects of the primitive were invoked by rural artists' colonies formed in France and Germany at the end of the 19th century and by the work of the Fauves and the German Expressionists a few years later. The book then develops an analysis of Cubist works based on semiotic theory, considering the social and cultural values encoded in such signifying systems, and investigating the relationship between representation and ideology. The final chapter considers some problems of interpretation and evolution posed by specific examples of abstract art ranging from Malevich to Mondrian.

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Author:   Gillian Perry ,  Francis Frascina ,  Charles Harrison
Publisher:   Yale University Press
Imprint:   Yale University Press
Volume:   Book 2
Dimensions:   Width: 25.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.60cm
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9780300055160

ISBN 10:   0300055161
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   26 May 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Chapter 1: Primitivism and the 'Modern' by Gill Perry Introduction: Primitivism in art-historical debate Part 1: 'The Going Away' - a preparation for the 'modern' 'Clogs and granite' Brittany and Pont-Aven 'Pillaging the savages of Oceania': Gauguin and Tahid Primitivism and Kulturkritik: Worpswede in the 1890s Part 2: The decorative, the expressive and the primitive The decorative and the 'culte de la vie': Matisse and Fauvism The expressive and the Expressionist Conclusion References Chapter 2: Realism and Ideologue An introduction to semiotics and cubism by Francis Frascina Introduction Representation: language, signs, realism Art and semiotics Realism, ideology and the 'discursive' in Cubism Artistic subcultures: signs and meaning Conclusion References Chapter 3: Abstraction by Charles Harrison Abstraction, figuration and representation On interpretation Autonomy Kazirnir Malevich Piet Mondrian References.

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Francis Frascina and Gill Perry are Lecturers in Art History, Nigel Blake is Lecturer in Educational Technology, and Charles Harrison is Staff Tutor and Reader in Art History at the Open University. Briony Fer and Tamar Garb are Lecturers in Art History at University College, London University.

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