Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE ART WRITING

1. Form and Modernist Aesthetics On or About 1910

2. The Science of Art Criticism After the 1910s

PART TWO ART AND LIFE

3. Mass Civilization and Minority Visual Culture

4. Design Theory and Marxist Art Writing: For and Against Mass Culture

5. Modernism and Form in Africa, Britain, and South Asia

Notes

Bibliography

Index