Guillaume Apollinaire 1880-1918
The Cubist Painters
George Bataille 1897-1962
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Carl Einstein 1885-1940
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The Psychology of Art
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Studies in Post-Impressionism
Meyer Schapiro 1904-1996
"Impressionism, Reflections and Perceptions" in
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Lawrence Alloway 1926-1990
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Hans Belting 1935-
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Albert Boime 1933-2008
Art in an age of civil struggle, 1848-1871
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"Conceptual art 1962-1969: from the aesthetics of administration to the critique of institutions" (1990) in Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (1999)
Victor Burgin 1941-
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"Looking at Photographs" (1982) in The Photography Reader (2006)
T. J. Clark 1943-
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"Art and Social Responsibility: The Ideology of Romanticism" (JSTOR)
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Arthur Danto 1924-2013
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Michael Fried 1939-
"Art and Objecthood" in Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology
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Dawn Ades 1943-
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Kant After Duchamp
"The Readymade is to Art In General What the Tube of Paint is to Modern Painting" (1996)
Walter L. Adamson
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Futurist Painting Sculpture: (Plastic Dynamism)
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