Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition

Johanna Drucker

Theorizing Modernism is a re-reading of the modernist tradition in the visual arts that provides a unique view of the history of modern art and art criticism.

Concentrating on canonical critical texts and images, the book examines modern art through a rhetoric of representation rather than through formalist criticism or the history of the avant-garde.

Related Subjects

• Art History

About the Author

Johanna Drucker is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art at Yale University. She is the author of The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art Practice, The Century of Artists' Books, andThe Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination.

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