modern art research papers

The Modern and Contemporary Art Research Guide is a select list of resources for students, teachers, and researchers to learn about modern and contemporary art, and links to resources on the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's collections and history.

How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics underscores how the cultural traditions, belief systems and performed exchanges that were once integral to the folklore discipline are now central to contemporary art’s "post-critical turn."

The Museum of Modern Art Archives is an internationally recognized research center for modern and contemporary art. The Archives collects, preserves, and makes accessible nearly 90 years’ worth of the Museum’s historical records, 40 years’ worth of MoMA PS1 records, and other primary source documents concerning art and cultural history in ...

Art historians have described the transformation of modern art in great detail, but have failed to recognize the causal role of economic forces: Trotsky’s dream of permanent revolution proved impractical in politics, but fundamental changes in market structure made it a reality for advanced art.

The Competition of Fibres: Early Textile Production in Western Asia, South-east and Central Europe (10,000-500BCE) 2020. Complementary Modernisms in China and the United States: Art as Life/Art as Idea. OPEN ACCESS.

Tate Papers is an online research journal that publishes scholarly articles on British and modern international art, and on museum practice today. These areas reflect the breadth of Tate’s collection, exhibition programme and activities.

MoMA Archives Image Database (MAID) MAID contains about 50,000 items digitized from our Archives: letters, ephemera, photos of artists and other art-world personalities, historical views of the Museum building and Sculpture Garden, and more. You can search MAID by keyword or browse by date range. MoMA through Time.

Modern Art takes the reader through individual movements from Impressionism to Conceptual Art, situating these within five broader chronological themes. Starting with Impressionism in 1860, Dempsey proceeds through the essentials of Modernism, the post-war New Disorder and beyond.

Oxford Art Journal marked its 40th anniversary in 2018. In celebration of this important milestone, browse a collection of articles which have been hand-picked by the editors. Selected papers represent various forms of critical, innovative work published between 1978 and 2018. Explore the collection.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION. (pp. 1-10) https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.8501151.4. This book is based on the belief that the writings and statements of painters and sculptors as well as of critics and poets, are valid source materials for a study of the ideas and doctrines of modern art.