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ART THEORY /// Texts, Writings & Manistos
1637
Painting of the Ancients – Franciscus Junius
1885
“Ten o’clock” – Mr. Whistler
1886
Symbolist Manifesto – Jean Moréas
1887
“Neo-Impressionism” – Félix Fénéon
1895
Preface to the Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Wagnerian Painting – Teodor de Wyzewa
1896
The tall office building artistically considered – Louis H. Sullivan
1897
A Throw of the Dice never will abolish Chance – Stéphane Mallarmé
The Beauty of Form and Decorative Art – August Endell
1899
Letter to Fontainas – Gauguin
from Eugene Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism – Signac
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
Party Organization and Party Literature – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
1906
Programme of the Briicke – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1907
‘Cezanne’ – Maurice Denis
1908
Ornament and Crime – Adolf Loos [Excerpts]
from Abstraction and Empathy – Wilhelm Worringer
Notes of a Painter – Henri Matisse
Nature and Culture – Alexander Blok
1909
Manifesto of futurism – Marinetti
From Gauguin and van Gogh to Neo-Classicism – Maurice Denis
An Essay in Aesthetics – Roger Fry
1910
Manifesto of Futurist Musicians – Pratella
Manifesto of the Futurist Painters
Someone is buried here – Adolf LOOS
Note on Painting – Jean Metzinger
1911
from Concerning the Spiritual in Art – Wassily Kandinsky
1912
On the Subject in Modern Painting – Guillaume Apollinaire
from The Cubist Painters (Chapter VII) – Guillaume Apollinaire
Present Tendencies in Painting – Jacques Riviere
from Cubism – Albert Gleizes & Jean Metzinger
The “Savages” of Germany – Franz Marc
Two Pictures – Franz Marc
On Primitive Art – Emil Nolde
On the Nature of Visions – Oskar Kokoschka
Neo-Primitivism – Alexander Shevchenko
On the Construction of Reality in Pure Painting – Robert Delaunay
The New Painting: Art Notes – Guillaume Apollinaire
1913
The Origins of Painting and its Representational Value – Fernand Leger
The Bases of the New Creation – Olga Rozanova
Destruction of Syntax—Imagination without strings—Words-in-Freedom
The Art of Noises – Russolo
1914
Manifesto of Futurist Architecture – Sant’Elia (1914)
The Cologne Lecture – Wassily Kandinsky
The Aesthetic Hypothesis – Clive Bell
from Expressionism – Hermann Bahr
Our Vortex – Percy Wyndham Lewis
‘Foreword’ to the planned second volume of Der Blaue Reiter – Franz Marc
Contemporary Achievements in Painting – Fernand Leger
In These Great Times – Karl Kraus
1915
Picasso Speaks – Pablo Picasso
Mystery and Creation – Giorgio de Chirico
Gaudier-Brzeska Vortex – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Vortex Gaudier-Brzeska (Written from the Trenches) – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting – K.Malevich
1917
Thoughts on Painting – Georges Braque
War, the World’s Only Hygiene – Marinetti
A Slap in the Face of Public Taste – Burliuk, Kruchenykh, Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov
What Is Art? – Benedetto Croce
1919
Statement in catalogue of Tenth State Exhibition – Popova
The Initiative Individual in the Creativity of the Collective – Tatlin
KOMFUT – Programme Declaration
Non-Objective Art and Suprematism – Malevich
1920
Letter to Mikhail Matiushin – K. MALEVICH
from Bulletin of the E.C.M.S.A. Workshops – K. MALEVICH
Organizational Program – RODCHENKO Aleksandr
The Monument to the Third International – Punin
Programme of a United Audience in Painting of the Vitebsk State Free Workshops – UNOVIS
The Realistic Manifesto – GABO, PEVNER
The Question of Imitative Art – Malevich
1921
Letter to David Shterenberg – K. MALEVICH
Tradition and individual talent – T.S. Eliot
Plan for the Physico-psychological Department of the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences – Kandinsky
Neo-Plasticism: the General Principle of Plastic Equivalence – Mondrian
1922
Literature and Revolution [Excerpts] – Leon Trotsky
Programme of the First Working Group of Constructivists
from Constructivism – Gan
1923
Manifesto of Surrealism – Andre Breton
The Antinomies of Bourgeois Thought – Georg Lukacs
The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus – Walter Gropius
1925
Declaration of the Bureau de Recherches Surrealistes – Louis Aragon
Art Is in Danger – George Grosz & Wieland Herzfelde
to Comrade Petrov – K. MALEVICH
1926
Photography versus Painting – Osip Brik
1927
We Are Searching – Sergei Tretyakov
We Raise the Alarm – Sergei Tretykov
At the Bauhaus in Dessau – K. MALEVICH
1928
Against the synthetic portrait, for the snapshot – RODCHENKO Aleksandr (1928)
Surrealism and Painting – Andre Breton
Painting and the Problem of Architecture – Kasimir Malevich
October (Association of Artistic Labour) – Declaration
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
from ‘Critical Dictionary’ – Georges Bataille
The Lugubrious Game – Georges Bataille
1930
Letter to Aleksandr S. Nikolsky – K. MALEVICH
STATEMENT NO OF INTERROGATION – K. MALEVICH
The Stinking Ass – Salvador Dali
1931
Letter to Gershom Scholem – Walter Benjamin
1932
Letter to Meyerhold – Kasimir Malevich
1933
La Radia – T. Marinetti, Masnata
1934
The Author as Producer – Walter Benjamin
from Aesthetic Function – Jan Mukafovsky
1935
Conversation with Picasso – Pablo Picasso
What Is Revolutionary Art? – Herbert Read
1936
What is art- John Graham
Preface to System & dialectic of art – John Graham
The New Realism Goes On – Fernand Leger
The Social Bases of Art – Meyer Schapiro
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction – Walter Benjamin
Letter to Benjamin – Theodor Adorno
The Mirror-Phase as Formative of the Function of the I – Lacan
1937
The Constructive Idea in Art – Gabo
Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art – Mondrian
Sculpture – Hepworth
1938
The critique of subjective idealism – Georg Lukacs
Editorial Statement of American Abstract Artists (AAA)
Popularity and Realism – Bertolt Brecht
Education of the Architect – Hannes Meyer
Discussing Expressionism – Ernst Bloch
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
1942
Open Opinions on Painting – Maurice de Vlaminck
1943
Statement – Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman
Statement – Adolph Gottlieb
from Marxism and Modern Art – Francis Klingender
1944
Answers to a Questionnaire – Jackson Pollock
The Parable of the Oarsmen -Adorno, Horkheimer
The Modern Painter’s World – Robert Motherwell
Why I Joined the Communist Party – Pablo Picasso
1945
from Existentialism and Humanism – Jean-Paul Sartre
Statement to Simone Tery – Pablo Picasso
The Human Body Considered as an Object – Fernand Leger
1946
Notes for the Well-Lettered – Jean Dubuffet
The White Manifesto – Lucio Fontana
1947
The Romantics were Prompted . . . – Mark Rothko
Statement – Mark Rothko
The Ideographic Picture – Barnett Newman
The First Man Was an Artist – Barnett Newman
from Van Gogh: the Man Suicided by Society – Antonin Artaud
The Question of What Will Emerge Is Left Open – Motherwell, Rosenberg
1948
Language – Asger Jorn
The Sublime Is Now – Barnett Newman
The Decline of cubism – Clement Greenberg
Interview with William Wright – Jackson Pollock
Crude Art Preferred to Cultural Art – Jean Dubuffet
The Search for the Absolute – Jean-Paul Sartre
Abstraction and Adventure in Contemporary Art – Jean-Michel Atlan
1949
from The Congressional Record – George Dondero
from Three Dialogues – Samuel Beckett,Georges Duthuit
1950
from The Politics of Freedom – Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
1951
‘Creation and Revolution’ from The Rebel – Albert Camus
Reflections on the Statuettes, Figures and Paintings of Alberto Giacometti – Ponge
1952
Is Modern Art Communistic? – Alfred H. Barr Jr
The Sculptor in Modern Society – Henry Moore
Aesthetics, the Artist and the Audience – David Smith
Statement – Clyfford Still
from The American Action Painters – Harold Rosenberg
Letter to Gordon Smith – Clyfford Still
from An Other Art – Michel Tapié
1953
Economic Support of Art in America Today – David Smith
1955
Open Letter to the Painters, Sculptors and Engravers of the Soviet Union – Siqueiros
1956
from Myth Today – Roland Barthes
Le Corbusier’s Chapel and the crisis of rationalism – James Stirling
1957
Writings from the Situationist International – Guy Debord
Commitment – Alain Robbe-Grillet
The Creativ Act – Marcel Duchamp
1958
The Ideology of Modernism – Georg Lukacs
The Arts and the Mass Media – Lawrence Alloway
1959
from Assemblages, Environments and Happenings – Allan Kaprow
Tradition and Identity – David Smith
Sorbonne Lecture – Yves Klein
1960
Three Dimensional – Piero Manzoni
The New Realists – Pierre Restany
Modernist Painting – Clement Greenberg
1961
The Analysis of Culture – Raymond Williams
On Robert Rauschenberg, Artist, and his Work – John Cage
For the Finest Art, Try Pop – Richard Hamilton
‘I Am for an Art . . .’ – Claes Oldenburg
from Eye and Mind – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Pandemonium Manifestos – Georg Baselitz
1962
from The Shape of Time – George Kubler
from Commitment – Theodor Adorno
Interview with Dorothy Gees Seckler – Barnett Newman
from After Abstract Expressionism – Clement Greenberg
Art as Art – Ad Reinhardt
Interview with David Sylvester – Francis Bacon
1963
Interview with Gene Swenson – Andy Warhol
1964
Lecture to the College Art Association – Roy Lichtenstein
Understanding Media (Introduction) – Marshall McLuhan
Interview with Samuel Wagstaff Jr – Tony Smith
from Three American PAinters – Michael Fried
1965
Interview with David Sylvester – Jasper Johns
Specific Objects – Donald Judd
A city is not a tree – Christopher Alexander
1966
A media art – Costa, Escary, Jacoby
from ‘Shape as Form: Frank Stella’s New Paintings’ – Michael Fried
on Sculpture 1-3 – Robert Morris
1967
A Matter of Meaning It – Stanley Cavell
Reflections on Sculpture – Tucker, Scott
ART and Objecthood – Michael Fried
Paragraphs on Conceptual Art – Sol LeWitt
Statement – Buren, Mosset, Parmentier & Toroni
The Exorbitant – Jacques Derrida
1968
AVANT GARDE ATTITUDES
Air Show – Terry Atkinson & Michael Baldwin
A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects – Robert Smithson
Anti Form – Robert Morris
1969
The Absence of Presence – Victor Burgin
Sentences on Conceptual Art – Sol LeWitt
Interview with Arthur R. Rose – Robert Barry
Art after Philosophy – Joseph Kosuth
Beware – Daniel Buren
Notes on Sculpture 4: Beyond Objects – Robert Morris
Art & Language (Editorial) – Terry Atkinson
The Role of Language – Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden
Situational Aesthetics – Victor Burgin
from Art Povera – Germano Celant
What Is an Author? – Michel Foucault
1970
The Work of Art as Object – Richard Wollheim
from ‘The Artist and Politics: a Symposium – Jo Baer
from ‘The Artist and Politics: a Symposium – Donald Judd
From ‘THE ARTIST AND POLITICS: A SYMPOSIUM’ – Robert Smithson
From ‘THE ARTIST AND POLITICS: A SYMPOSIUM’ – Lawrence Weiner
from ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ – Louis Althusser
from ‘Postscript to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – Thomas Kuhn
1971
Pratt Institute Lecture – Frank Stella
From Work to Text – Roland Barthes
1972
Not Just a Few Are Called, But Everyone – Joseph Beuys
Cultural Confinement – Robert Smithson
from Other Criteria – Leo Steinberg
A View of Modernism – Rosalind Krauss
1973
Interview with Ursula Meyer – Lucy Lippard
Ethic of Labour, Aesthetic of Play – Jean Baudrillard
1974
I Am Searching for Field Character – Joseph Beuys
Prolegomenon’ to Revolution in Poetic Language – Julia Kristeva
1975
The Art Market: Affluence and Degradation – Ian Burn
from ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ – Laura Mulvey
1976
Editorial to Art-Language
A Lecture – Michel Foucault
The Hyper-realism of Simulation – Jean Baudrillard
The Hyper-realism of Simulation – Jean Baudrillard
1977
from ‘Reflections on the Brecht-Lukacs Debate’ – Fredric Jameson
Dominant, Residual and Emergent – Raymond Williams
1978
from ‘Modernism and Capitalism’ – Daniel Bell
1979
MODERN AND POSTMODERN – Clement Greenberg
Introduction to The Postmodern Condition – Jean-François Lyotard
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
ART CRITICISM – Clement Greenberg
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
Letter to a Canadian Curator – Baldwin,Ramsden, Harrison
Taking Pictures – Barbara Kruger
1983
Nature and Culture – Peter Halley
1984
The Deconstruction of Expression – Fredric Jameson
from … not about master-pieces but why there are so few of them – JUDD
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
Mute Poesy and Blind Painting – W. J. T. Mitchell
Tainting after Art?: Comments on Wollheim – Flint Schier
from Interview with Benjamin Buchloh – Gerhard Richter
1987
When Was Modernism? – Raymond Williams
1989
Who Claims Alterity? – Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak
Artillery Sheds – Donald JUDD
1990
The Yale Lecture – Richard Serra
1991
Notes – Gerhard Richter
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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