ABSTRACT

Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring 48 essays on the most important twentieth century writers and thinkers and written by an international panel of expert contributors, it introduces readers to key approaches and analytical tools used in the study of contemporary art. It discusses writers such as Adorno, Barthes, Benjamin, Freud, Greenberg, Heuser, Kristeva, Merleau-Ponty, Pollock, Read and Sontag.

chapter |6 pages

Theodor Adorno (1903–69)

German Philosopher and Musicologist

chapter |6 pages

Rudolf Arnheim (1904–)

German-Born American Psychologist

chapter |6 pages

Mieke Bal (1946–)

Dutch Cultural Theorist

chapter |6 pages

Roland Barthes (1915–80)

French Literary and Cultural Critic

chapter |5 pages

Jean Baudrillard (1929–)

French Sociologist

chapter |6 pages

Michael Baxandall (1933–)

British Art Historian

chapter |6 pages

Clive Bell (1881–1964)

British Critic and Art Historian

chapter |6 pages

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

German Literary and Cultural Critic

chapter |7 pages

John Berger (1926–)

British Art Critic, Artist and Novelist

chapter |6 pages

Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002)

French Sociologist

chapter |6 pages

Norman Bryson (1949–)

British Historian of Art and Visual Culture

chapter |6 pages

T.J. Clark (1943–)

British Art Historian

chapter |5 pages

R.G. Collingwood (1889–1943)

British Philosopher and Historian

chapter |5 pages

Benedetto Croce (1866–1952)

Italian Philosopher

chapter |6 pages

Hubert Damisch (1928–)

French Philosopher and Historian of Art and Architecture

chapter |6 pages

Arthur C. Danto (1924–)

American Philosopher

chapter |6 pages

Jacques Derrida (1930–)

French Philosopher

chapter |6 pages

John Dewey (1859–1952)

American Philosopher

chapter |5 pages

Henri Focillon (1881–1943)

French Art Historian

chapter |5 pages

Michel Foucault (1926–84)

French Philosopher and Historian

chapter |6 pages

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

Austrian Psychoanalyst

chapter |6 pages

Roger Fry (1866–1934)

British Critic

chapter |6 pages

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002)

German Philosopher

chapter |7 pages

Ernst Gombrich (1909–2001)

Austrian-Born Art Historian

chapter |6 pages

Nelson Goodman (1906–98)

American Philosopher

chapter |6 pages

Clement Greenberg (1909–94)

American Critic and Theorist

chapter |6 pages

Arnold Hauser (1892–1978)

Hungarian-Born Art Historian

chapter |6 pages

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)

German Philosopher

chapter |6 pages

Julia Kristeva (1941–)

Bulgarian-Born French Theorist

chapter |6 pages

Jacques Lacan (1901–81)

French Psychoanalyst

chapter |7 pages

Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985)

American Philosopher

chapter |6 pages

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–)

French Anthropologist

chapter |7 pages

Alain Leroy Locke (1886–1954)

African-American Cultural Historian

chapter |5 pages

Jean-François Lyotard (1924–98)

French Philosopher

chapter |7 pages

Émile Mâle (1862–1954)

French Art Historian

chapter |5 pages

André Malraux (1901–76)

French Writer

chapter |5 pages

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–61)

French Philosopher

chapter |7 pages

Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968)

German-Born Art Historian

chapter |6 pages

Griselda Pollock (1949–)

British Art Historian

chapter |5 pages

Herbert Read (1893–1968)

British Critic

chapter |6 pages

Meyer Schapiro (1904–96)

American Art Historian

chapter |5 pages

Georg Simmel (1858–1918)

German Sociologist

chapter |6 pages

Susan Sontag (1933–)

American Cultural Critic

chapter |6 pages

Adrian Stokes (1902–72)

British Critic

chapter |7 pages

Aby Warburg (1866–1933)

German Art Historian

chapter |6 pages

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

Austrian-Born Philosopher

chapter |6 pages

Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945)

Swiss Art Historian

chapter |5 pages

Richard Wollheim (1923–)

British Philosopher

chapter |6 pages

Wilhelm Worringer (1881–1965)

German Art Historian and Theorist