Art in Crisis

The history of art from the early nineteenth century on- ward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism

Patricia Stuart-Macadam

1: Symptoms; I: New Master Problems; II: The Search For A Lost Style; III: The Isolation Of The Arts; IV: The Attack on Architecture; V: The Significance Of The Fragment; VI: Chaos Unleashed; Part Two : Diagnosis And Progress Of The Disease; VII: 'Analogia Morbi'; VIII: 'Autonomous' Man; IX: At The Origins Of The Present; X: Precursors of Modern Art; XI: The Three Artistic Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century; XII: From The Liberation Of Art To The Negation Of Art; III: Towards a Prognosis and a Final Judgement; XIII: An Evaluation of the Epoch; XIV: Towards an Evaluation of Modern art; XV: Modern art as the Fourth Phase of Western art; XVI: Today as the Turning Point in the History of Man; XVII: Prognosis; Postscript