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1885
LE “TEN O’CLOCK” de 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
Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism [excerpt] – Max Weber
The Mediums of Art, Past and Present – Julius Meier-Graefe
1905
L’ascetisme, l’esprit du protestantisme – Max Weber
1906
Programme of the Briicke – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1908
Nature and Culture – Alexander Blok
from Abstraction and Empathy – Wilhelm Worringer
Ornament and Crime – Adolf Loos [Excerpts]
Ornement et Crime – Adolf Loos
1909
From Gauguin and van Gogh to Neo-Classicism – Maurice Denis
1910
Manifeste des peintres futuristes
Manifesto of Futurist Musicians – Pratella
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
Classique Baroque Moderne – Theo van Doesburg
Manifeste de la revue De Stijl – Van Doesburg
1919
Non-Objective Art and Suprematism – Malevich
1920
The Question of Imitative Art – Malevich
The Realistic Manifesto – GABO, PEVNER
The Monument to the Third International – Punin
from Bulletin of the E.C.M.S.A. Workshops – K. 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
LA CULTURE PROLÉTARIENNE ET L’ART PROLÉTARIEN – Léon Trotski
Le futurisme – 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
Architecture and Revolution — Revolutionary Architecture? Utopian Designs by Tatlin, Lissitzky, and Others
Painting and the Problem of Architecture – Kasimir Malevich
Contre les artistes imitateurs – Théo van Doesburg
Against the synthetic portrait, for the snapshot – RODCHENKO Aleksandr (1928)
1929
Marxism and the Philosophy of Language – V.N. Volosinov
Second Manifesto of Surrealism – Andre Breton
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
The Mirror-Phase as Formative of the Function of the I – Lacan
The Social Bases of Art – Meyer Schapiro
Défense et illustration de la machine – Elie Faure
1937
Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art – Mondrian
The Constructive Idea in Art – Gabo
Vocation du cinéma – Elie Faure
1938
Towards a Free Revolutionary Art – Breton, Rivera, Trotsky
Popularity and Realism – Bertolt Brecht
La formation de l’Architecte – Hannes Meyer
The critique of subjective idealism – Georg Lukacs
Editorial Statement of American Abstract Artists (AAA)
1939
Avant-garde and KITSCH – Clement Greenberg
1940
The American Avant-Garde – Clement Greenberg
The Fall of Paris – Harold Rosenberg
1948
Crude Art Preferred to Cultural Art – Jean Dubuffet
Interview with William Wright – Jackson Pollock
The Sublime Is Now – Barnett Newman
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
The Sculptor in Modern Society – Henry Moore
Is Modern Art Communistic? – Alfred H. Barr Jr
Letter to Gordon Smith – Clyfford Still
Aesthetics, the Artist and the Audience – David Smith
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
Re-Viewing Modernist Criticism – Mary Kelly
Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community – Edward Said
Modernity : An Incomplete Project – Jurgen Habermas
from The Originality of the Avant-Garde – Rosalind Krauss
1982
Taking Pictures – Barbara Kruger
Statement – Sherrie Levine
What Is Postmodernism? – Jean-Francois Lyotard
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
Image and Word – W. J. T. Mitchell
From Criticism to Complicity – Koons, Halley, Steinbach, Bickerton, Levine
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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