Description
Theorizing Modernism is a re-reading of the modernist tradition in the visual arts that provides a unique view of the history of modern art and art criticism. Concentrating on canonical critical texts and images, the book examines modern art through a rhetoric of representation rather than through formalist criticism or the history of the avant-garde.
Concentrating on canonical critical texts and images, the book examines modern art through a rhetoric of representation rather than through formalist criticism or the history of the avant-garde.
About the Author
Johanna Drucker is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art at Yale University. She is the author of The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art Practice, The Century of Artists' Books, andThe Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination.
Book Information
ISBN 9780231080835
Author Johanna Drucker
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press
Concentrating on canonical critical texts and images, the book examines modern art through a rhetoric of representation rather than through formalist criticism or the history of the avant-garde.
About the Author
Johanna Drucker is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art at Yale University. She is the author of The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art Practice, The Century of Artists' Books, andThe Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination.
Book Information
ISBN 9780231080835
Author Johanna Drucker
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press
