Books in the Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts series

In an age where art history's questions are expected to receive answers, this work embraces doubt as a critical tool and asks how particular histories of art have come to be. It is a study of the tension between practicing art and practicing criticism.

Examining the rival theories of modernism and postmodernism, and including a survey of ideas about the relation of modern art to skill and politics, this is the first book to gather the principal authors and theories of twentieth-century art history