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Modern artists on art / edited by Robert L. Herbert.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Art criticism--History--20th century.
- Art criticism.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 185 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Second, enlarged edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2000.
- Summary:
- 16 of the 20th century's leading artistic innovators talk forcefully about their work--from Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger's 1912 presentation of cubist theory to Henry Moore's comments, three decades later, on sculpture and primitive art. Four newly added essays by Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, El Lissitzky, and Fernand Leger.
- Contents:
- Gleizes and Metzinger: Cubism (1912) 1
- Kandinsky: Reminiscences (1913) 17
- Boccioni: Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture (1912) Preface to the First Exhibition of Futurist Sculpture (1913) 40
- Le Corbusier and Ozenfant: Purism (1920) 52
- Schwitters: Merz (1920) 66
- Lissitzky: New Russian Art (1922) 76
- Leger: The Machine Aesthetic (1924) 94
- Klee: On Modern Art (1924) 102
- Malevich: Suprematism (1927) 116
- Ernst: Beyond Painting (1937) 125
- Gabo: The Constructive Idea in Art (1937) 141
- Mondrian: Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art (1937) 151
- Beckmann: On My Painting (1938) 166
- Moore: The Sculptor's Aims (1934); Notes on Sculpture (1937); Primitive Art (1941) 172.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-185).
- ISBN:
- 0486411915
- 9780486411910
- OCLC:
- 44413600
- Online:
- Publisher description
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