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TEXTS & WRITING(s)
1885
LE “TEN O’CLOCK” de Whistler
“Ten o’clock” – Mr. Whistler
1896
Considérations esthétiques sur la hauteur des bâtiments – Louis H. Sullivan [Extraits]
1897
The Beauty of Form and Decorative Art – August Endell
1901
On dream [excerpts] – Freud
1902
The Metropolis and Mental Life – Georg Simmel
1903
Sex and character – Otto Weininger
1904
The Mediums of Art, Past and Present – Julius Meier-Graefe
Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism [excerpt] – Max Weber
1905
L’ascetisme, l’esprit du protestantisme – Max Weber
1906
Programme of the Briicke – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1908
Ornament and Crime – Adolf Loos [Excerpts]
Ornement et Crime – Adolf Loos
from Abstraction and Empathy – Wilhelm Worringer
Nature and Culture – Alexander Blok
1909
From Gauguin and van Gogh to Neo-Classicism – Maurice Denis
1910
Manifeste des peintres futuristes
Manifesto of Futurist Musicians – Pratella
Someone is buried here – Adolf LOOS
1911
from Concerning the Spiritual in Art – Wassily Kandinsky
1912
from Cubism – Albert Gleizes & Jean Metzinger
Neo-Primitivism – Alexander Shevchenko
1914
In These Great Times – Karl Kraus
1915
From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting – K.Malevich
1917
What Is Art? – Benedetto Croce
1918
Manifeste de la revue De Stijl – Van Doesburg
Classique Baroque Moderne – Theo van Doesburg
1919
Non-Objective Art and Suprematism – Malevich
1920
from Bulletin of the E.C.M.S.A. Workshops – K. MALEVICH
The Monument to the Third International – Punin
The Realistic Manifesto – GABO, PEVNER
The Question of Imitative Art – Malevich
1921
Neo-Plasticism: the General Principle of Plastic Equivalence – Mondrian
1922
Literature and Revolution [Excerpts] – Leon Trotsky
Programme of the First Working Group of Constructivists
1923
The Antinomies of Bourgeois Thought – Georg Lukacs
1924
Le futurisme – Léon Trotski
LA CULTURE PROLÉTARIENNE ET L’ART PROLÉTARIEN – Léon Trotski
1925
Art Is in Danger – George Grosz & Wieland Herzfelde
to Comrade Petrov – K. MALEVICH
1926
Photography versus Painting – Osip Brik
1927
We Raise the Alarm – Sergei Tretykov
At the Bauhaus in Dessau – K. MALEVICH
1928
Against the synthetic portrait, for the snapshot – RODCHENKO Aleksandr (1928)
Painting and the Problem of Architecture – Kasimir Malevich
Contre les artistes imitateurs – Théo van Doesburg
Architecture and Revolution — Revolutionary Architecture? Utopian Designs by Tatlin, Lissitzky, and Others
1929
Second Manifesto of Surrealism – Andre Breton
Marxism and the Philosophy of Language – V.N. Volosinov
1930
Elémentarisme (les éléments de la nouvelle peinture) – Theo van Doesburg
1931
Letter to Gershom Scholem – Walter Benjamin
1932
Letter to Meyerhold – Kasimir Malevich
Abstraction-Création – Cahiers # 1 (éditorial)
1933
Abstraction-Création – Cahiers # 2 (éditorial)
1936
Défense et illustration de la machine – Elie Faure
The Social Bases of Art – Meyer Schapiro
The Mirror-Phase as Formative of the Function of the I – Lacan
1937
Vocation du cinéma – Elie Faure
The Constructive Idea in Art – Gabo
Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art – Mondrian
1938
The critique of subjective idealism – Georg Lukacs
Editorial Statement of American Abstract Artists (AAA)
Popularity and Realism – Bertolt Brecht
La formation de l’Architecte – Hannes Meyer
Towards a Free Revolutionary Art – Breton, Rivera, Trotsky
1939
Avant-garde and KITSCH – Clement Greenberg
1940
The Fall of Paris – Harold Rosenberg
The American Avant-Garde – Clement Greenberg
1948
The Sublime Is Now – Barnett Newman
Interview with William Wright – Jackson Pollock
Crude Art Preferred to Cultural Art – Jean Dubuffet
1949
from The Congressional Record – George Dondero
L’ Art brut préféré aux arts culturels [extraits] – Jean Dubuffet
1950
from The Politics of Freedom – Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
1952
Is Modern Art Communistic? – Alfred H. Barr Jr
The Sculptor in Modern Society – Henry Moore
Aesthetics, the Artist and the Audience – David Smith
Letter to Gordon Smith – Clyfford Still
1955
Open Letter to the Painters, Sculptors and Engravers of the Soviet Union – Siqueiros
1956
from Myth Today – Roland Barthes
1957
Writings from the Situationist International – Guy Debord
Commitment – Alain Robbe-Grillet
1958
The Arts and the Mass Media – Lawrence Alloway
1959
from Assemblages, Environments and Happenings – Allan Kaprow
1960
Modernist Painting – Clement Greenberg
1961
The Analysis of Culture – Raymond Williams
For the Finest Art, Try Pop – Richard Hamilton
1962
from The Shape of Time – George Kubler
from Commitment – Theodor Adorno
from After Abstract Expressionism – Clement Greenberg
1964
Understanding Media (Introduction) – Marshall McLuhan
from Three American PAinters – Michael Fried
1966
on Sculpture 1-3 – Robert Morris
1967
ART and Objecthood – Michael Fried
The Exorbitant – Jacques Derrida
1968
AVANT GARDE ATTITUDES
A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects – Robert Smithson
1969
The Absence of Presence – Victor Burgin
Art after Philosophy – Joseph Kosuth
Notes on Sculpture 4: Beyond Objects – Robert Morris
from Art Povera – Germano Celant
What Is an Author? – Michel Foucault
1970
From ‘THE ARTIST AND POLITICS: A SYMPOSIUM’ – Lawrence Weiner
1971
From Work to Text – Roland Barthes
1972
from Other Criteria – Leo Steinberg
1973
Interview with Ursula Meyer – Lucy Lippard
1975
The Art Market: Affluence and Degradation – Ian Burn
from ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ – Laura Mulvey
1976
Editorial to Art-Language
1977
Dominant, Residual and Emergent – Raymond Williams
1978
from ‘Modernism and Capitalism’ – Daniel Bell
1979
MODERN AND POSTMODERN – Clement Greenberg
1980
Towers of Horror – Julia Kristeva
Art & Language Paints a Picture – Baldwin, Ramsden & Harrison
1981
Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community – Edward Said
Re-Viewing Modernist Criticism – Mary Kelly
Modernity : An Incomplete Project – Jurgen Habermas
from The Originality of the Avant-Garde – Rosalind Krauss
1982
What Is Postmodernism? – Jean-Francois Lyotard
Statement – Sherrie Levine
Taking Pictures – Barbara Kruger
1983
Nature and Culture – Peter Halley
1984
The Deconstruction of Expression – Fredric Jameson
1985
Sexuality in the Field of Vision – Jacqueline Rose
from ‘The Cultural-Historical Tragedy of the European Continent’
from ‘Subversive Signs’ – Hal Foster
1986
From Criticism to Complicity – Koons, Halley, Steinbach, Bickerton, Levine
Image and Word – W. J. T. Mitchell
from Interview with Benjamin Buchloh – Gerhard Richter
1989
Who Claims Alterity? – Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak
1999
Barcellona Manifesto – Enzo Mari
2000
Sound Art? – Max Neuhaus
2003
Annotations for Sound Art – Julian Cowley
2012
Omnitheism and Democracy – Michelangelo PISTOLETTO
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Authors
ADORNO Theodor
APOLLINAIRE Guillaume
BARTHES Roland
BATAILLE Georges
BENJAMIN Walter
BRETON Andre
CLYFFORD Still
COSTA Eduardo
DENIS Maurice
de WYZEWA Teodor
ENDELL August
ESCARI Raul
GABO Naum
Gaudier-Brzeska Henri
GAUGUIN Paul
GOTTLIEB Adolph
GRAHAM John
GREENBERG Clement
JACOBY Roberto
JUDD Donald
KANDINSKY W.
LEGER Fernand
LOOS Adolf
LUKACS Georg
LYOTARD Jean-François
MALEVICH Kasimir
MARC Franz
MARINETTI F.T.
MASNATA Pino
MEIER-GRAEFE Julius
METZINGER Jean
MOTHERWELL Robert
NEUHAUS Max
NEWMAN Barnett
PICASSO Pablo
POLLOCK Jackson
PUNIN Nikolay
RODCHENKO Aleksandr
ROSENBERG Harold
ROTHKO Mark
SIMMEL Georg
SMITH David
TRETYAKOV Sergei
TROTSKY Leon
WILLIAMS Raymond
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