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Art: 60-105/106/206 Critical Theory in Art: Primary Source Anthologies and Critical Readers

Primary Sources in Anthologies

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Harrison, Charles ; Wood, Paul. Art in theory, 1900-2000 : an anthology of changing ideas. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2003
Writings by artists and theorists from 1648 to 2000
HUNT-FA-REF N6350 .A78 4 vols.

 

Benson, Timothy O.;  Forgács, Éva. Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930
Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2002.



Danchev, Alex. 100 Artists’ Manifestos . London: Penguin, 2011.

 


Documents of 20th Century Art
(series)
Artists on art (various locations)

 


Goldman, Jane, Kolocotroni, Vassiliki., and Taxidou, Olga. Modernism an anthology of sources and documents Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
E-BOOK

 

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Robinson, Hilary. Feminism-art-theory : an anthology 1968-2014. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

HUNT-FA-REF-4 N72 .F45 F442 2015
 

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Gablik, Suzi. Conversations before the end of time. New York ;: Thames and Hudson, 1995.

 


Manghani, Sunil. Images: Critical and Primary Sources. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
HUNT STACKS-4 NX60 .I43 2013 4 vols.

 

McCoubrey, John W. American Art, 1700-1960; Sources and Documents. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1965
HUNT STACKS-4 N6505 .M26 1965


Selz, Peter Howard, and Stiles, Kristine. Theories and documents of contemporary art : a sourcebook of artists’ writings 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2012.
HUNT-FA-REF 4 N6490 .T492 2012.

 


Caws, Mary Ann. Manifesto : a century of isms. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
HUNT STACKS-2 CB427 .M287 2001
Artistic and cultural manifestos.



Lewer, Debbie. Post-Impressionism to World War II. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2006.
HUNT- STACKS-4 N6758 .P68
Includes manifestos.

 


Dorra, Henri. Symbolist art theories : a critical anthology Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
HUNT STACKS-4 NX542 .S97 1994

 

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Landau, Ellen G., ed. Reading abstract expressionism. New Haven; London: Yale 2005.
E-BOOK

 


Want, Christopher, ed. Philosophers On Art From Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010


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Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1750--2000. Harrison-Moore, Abigail., and Dorothy Rowe, eds.  Malden, MA ; Oxford: Blackwell Pub., 2006.

The  Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology. Donald Preziosi, ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
2009 (new ed. print)
1998 E-BOOK.

Art Theory and Criticism: An Anthology of Formalist, Avant-garde, Contextualist, and Post-modernist Thought. Everett, Sally, ed. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1991.

Global Visual Cultures: An Anthology, Kocur, Zoya, ed. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Thoery and Criticism.  Bee, Susan., and Mira Schor, eds. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2000.
HUNT-STACKS-4 N6512 .M378 2000

Modern Art Criticism : A Biographical and Critical Guide ot Painters, Sculptors, Photographers from the Beginning of the Modern Era to the Present. Prosyniuk, Joann et.al., ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991.

Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art. Taylor, Joshua Charles, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
E-BOOK

Theories of Modern Art: A Sourcebook by Artists and Critics.Chipp, Herschel B.,A comp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
HUNT -FA-REF-4 N6450 .C62

Twentieth-Century Artists on Art. Ashton, Dore,ed. Pantheon Books, 1985
HUNT STACKS-4 N6490 .A79 1985

Critical Studies Readers


Araeen, Rasheed., Sean Cubitt, and Ziauddin Sardar. The Third Text Reader: On Art, Culture, and Theory. London ; New York: Continuum, 2002.
HUNT STACKS-4 NX180 .S6 T46 2002


Bradley, Will., Charles Esche. Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader. London: Tate Publishing in association with Afterall, 2007.

Cornell, Lauren, Ed Halter, eds. Mass Effect : Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century . Cambridge, Massachusetts ;: The MIT Press, 2015
 

Dumbadze, Alexander Blair; Hudson, Suzanne eds. Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present, Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell,
HUNT STACKS-4 N6490 .C65665 2013

 

Flood, Richard. Unmonumental : the Object in the 21st Century . London ; Phaidon and The New Museum, 2007.
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 NB198.6 .U56 2007 (exhibition)



Foster, Hal, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin Buchloh, David Joselit. Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2016
HUNT-FA-REF-4 NX456 .A78 2016

 


Graham, Gordon.Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics.3rd ed. London ; New York: Routledge, 2005.



Kocur, Zoya,, and Simon Leung. Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985. Second edition. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
HUNT STACKS-4 N66 .T49 2013
 


Erjavec, Aleš. Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-century Avant-garde Movements. Durham ; London: Duke University Press, 2015.
HUNT STACKS-2 BH301 .A94 A37 2015
 


Jones, Amelia. Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2010.
HUNT STACKS-2 HQ1121.F46 2010


Leighton, Tanya. Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader. London : New York: Tate Publishing in associatioin with Afterall 2008.
HUNT STACKS-4 PN1995 .A78 2008


Nelson, Robert S., and Richard Shiff. Critical Terms for Art History. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
HUNT FA-REF-4 N34 .C75 2003
 

Pinder, Kymberly N. (ed) Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History. New York: Routledge, 2002
HUNT-STACKS N5303 .R27 2002
 


Smith, Paul, and Carolyn Wilde. A Companion to Art Theory. Oxford ; Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
HUNT FA-REF-4 N61 .C58 2002

 


Williams, Robert. Art Theory: An Historical Introduction. Malden, Ma.: Blackwell, 2004.
STACKS-4 N5300 .W647 2004


Bronner, Stephen Eric, and Douglas Kellner. Critical Theory and Society: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 1989.


Carpenter, Ele, ed. The Nuclear Culture Source Book. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2016.
HUNT STACKS-4 N6497 .N835 2016


Friedman, Ken. Fluxus Reader. Chicester, West Sussex ; New York: Academy Editions, 1998.


Hemingway, Andrew. Marxism and the History of Art: From William Morris to the New Left. London ; Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto, 2006.

 


Heywood, Ian, et al. The Handbook of Visual Culture. English ed. London: Berg, 2012.
HUNT STACKS-4 N72 .S6 H36 2012

Lott, Tommy Lee, John P Pittman, eds. A Companion to African-American Philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2006.
E-BOOK


Parmesani, Loredana. Art of the Twentieth Century: Movements, Theories, Schools and Tendencies, 1900-2000. Milano : New York, N.Y.: Skira, 2000.
HUNT STACKS-4 N6490 .P375 2000



Schwartz, Frederic J. Blind Spots: Critical Theory and the History of Art in Twentieth-century Germany. [New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press], 2005.
HUNT STACKS-4 N7480 .S38 2005


Berghaus, Gunter. Futurism and the Technological Imagination. Amsterdam; New York, NY: Rodopi, 2009
HUNT STACKS-4 N6494 .F8 F864 2009


Poggi, Christine. Futurism: An Anthology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009
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