Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition

by Johanna Drucker

Drucker (art history, Columbia U.) redefines the modernist tradition of visual art through a rhetoric of representation rather than from a formalist or historical approach. Her main themes are attitudes toward space, the ontology of the object, and the production of subjectivity. Illustrated in black and white. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Genres: Art

214 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1994

About the author

Johanna Drucker, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic, is Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.