{"product_id":"2026200010207-secondhand-modernism-criticism-realism","title":"Modernism, Criticism, Realism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of artistic ambition and intellectual debate, Modernism, Criticism, Realism presents a rigorous and provocative anthology that maps the contested terrain of twentieth-century art theory. Edited by Charles Harrison and Fred Orton, the collection assembles key critical writings that interrogate the ideological foundations of modernism, the politics of realism, and the role of criticism in shaping how art is produced, interpreted, and valued. The editors draw on their scholarly grounding in art history — Harrison from the Courtauld Institute and Orton from the University of Leeds — to curate a selection of essays that refuses easy synthesis, instead placing competing voices in productive tension.\n\nThe volume stands as a landmark contribution to the discourse surrounding modern art, reflecting the intellectual climate of the early 1980s when questions of representation, ideology, and aesthetic value were hotly contested. Harrison and Orton argue implicitly that no single framework — whether Greenbergian formalism or social realism — can fully account for the complexity of modern artistic practice. Challenging, scholarly, and essential, this anthology leaves the reader questioning the very criteria by which art is judged — and why those criteria have never been, and perhaps never can be, truly neutral.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130663117019,"sku":"2026200010207-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/dd128728-9aeb-4c27-bcb9-480e53fc6757.png?v=1786588106","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010207-secondhand-modernism-criticism-realism","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}