CONTENTS
Introduction
Introductory Texts 3
1. Clement Greenberg Modernist Painting 5
2. Sir Karl Popper Historical Interpretation 11
Section One Modern Life, Modernite and Modernism
3. Charles Baudelaire The Salon of 1846 : On the Heroism of Modern Life 17
4. Charles Baudelaire The Salon of 1859 : The Modern Public and Photography 19
5. Charles Baudelaire The Painter of Modern Life 23
6. Emile Zola Edouard Manet 29
7. Stiphane Mallarmi The Impressionists and Edouard Manet 39
8. ].K . Huysmans 'L'Exposition des lndependants' in 1880 45
9. Maurice Denis From Gauguin and Van Gogh to Classicism 51
10. Maurice Denis Cezanne 57
Section Two The Development of Modernism
11. Clive Bell The Aesthetic Hypothesis 67
12. Clive Bell The Debt to Cezanne 75
13. Roger Fry An Essay in Aesthetics 79
14. Roger Fry The French Post-Impressionists 89
15. Clement Greenberg 'American-Type' Painting 93
16. Clement Greenberg Collage 105
17. Clement Greenberg Master Leger 109
18. Michael Fried Three American Painters 115
19. Herbert Read What is Revolutionary Art? 123
20. Donald Judd Barnett Newman 129
Section Three Abstraction
21. Nikolai Tarabukin From the Easel to the Machine 135
22. Bertolt Brecht On Non-Objective Painting 143
23. Hilla Rebay The Beauty of Non-Objectivity 145
24. Ernst Gombrich Illusion and Visual Deadlock 149
Section Four Expressionism
25. Wilhelm Worringer Abstraction and Empathy 159
26. Hermann Bahr Expression
27. Sheldon Cheney Abstraction and Mysticism 171
28. Ernst Gombrich Expression and Communication 177
29. Nelson Goodman Art and Inquiry 191
Section Five Art and Society
30. Julius Meier-Graefe The Development of Modern Art 205
31. Leon Trotsky Literature and Revolution 209
32. Walter Benjamin The Author as Producer 213
33. Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 217
34. PaulEluard Poetic Evidence 221
35. Bertolt Brecht Popularity and Realism 227
36. Arnold Hauser The Sociological Approach: The Concept of Ideology in the History of Art
37. John Berger Leger 239
38. Nicos Hadjinicolaou Art History and Class Struggle 243
39. T.J. Clark On the Social History of Art 249
40. T.J. Clark Preliminaries to a Possible Treatment of Olympia
in 1865 259
41. Eunice Lipton The Laundress in Late Nineteenth-century French
Culture 275
42. Fred Orton and Griselda Pollock Les Donnees Bretonnantes: La
Prairie de la Representation 285
Index 305