Writing Back to Modern Art

Here for the first time is a full-length study of the ''critical modernisms'' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the twentieth century, which helps us build a better understanding of the development of modern art writing and its relation to the ''post-modern'' in art and society since the 1970s.

Focusing on canonical modern artists such as Manet, Cezanne, Picasso and Pollock, th...