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Title Art has no history! : the making and unmaking of modern art / edited by John Roberts
Published London ; New York : Verso, 1994

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Description ix, 303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: Art Has No History! Reflections on Art History and Historical Materialism / John Roberts -- 1. Francis Picabia: Another Failure to Interpret the Work / Inter Alia (Dave Beech and Mark Hutchinson) -- 2. The Difficult Freedom of Ad Reinhardt / Michael Corris -- 3. Figuring Jasper Johns / Fred Orton -- 4. Taxinomia and Taxomania: Some Groundwork towards an Evaluation of the Art of Robert Smithson / Jeffrey Steele -- 5. Warhol's Voice, Benys's Face, Crow's Writing / Terry Atkinson -- 6. Truth and Beauty: The Ruined Abstraction of Gerhard Richter / Paul Wood -- 7. Victor Burgin's Polysemic Dreamcoat / Jessica Evans -- 8. Circuit-breaking Desires: Critiquing the Work of Mary Kelly / Catherine Lupton -- 9. Cindy Sherman: Theory and Practice / Gen Doy -- 10. Laurie Anderson: Myth, Management and Platitude / Sean Cubitt
Analysis Visual arts Modernism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Art criticism.
Author Roberts, John, 1955-
LC no. 94004882
ISBN 0860914577 (paperback)
0860916278