The Sense of Time in the Art of the Twentieth Century

What is revealed by such different attempts at the writing of history as, on the one hand, Art in Theory 1900-1990, an anthology of texts compiled by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, an on the other, Art : l’âge contemporain by Paul Ardenne? Neither of the titles precisely reflects the guiding principles of the work concerned. Indeed, the first constituted of theoretical texts and thus inherently refractory to public reception, uses documents to write a history whose contradictory dimension in..