Date Author Title
1900 Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams
1917 Lucien Levy Bruhl How Natives Think
1925 Adolf Hitler Mien Kampf
1927 Friedrich Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music
  Georges Bataille The Solar Anus
1930 Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
  Georges Bataille Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh
    The Mouth
1935 Federico Garcia Lorca Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
  Martin Heidegger The Origin of the Work of Art
  Melanie Klein A Contribution to the Psychogenesis of Manic-Depressive States
1940 Clement Greenberg Avant Garde and Kitsch
    Towards a New Laocoon
  Harold Rosenberg The Fall of Paris
  Walter Benjamin The Arcades Project
1945 Maurice Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology of Perception
1946 Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism and Humanism
1947 Clement Greenberg The Present Prospects of American Painting and Sculpture
1949 Arthur Schlesinger The Vital Center
  Life Magazine Jackson Pollock:  Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?
1950 Jean Genet Un Chant D'Amour
1951 Robert Motherwell The Dada Painters and Poets
1952 Harold Rosenberg The American Action Painters
1953 Albert Camus The Rebel
1957 Roland Barthes Mythologies
1958 Allan Kaprow The Legacy of Jackson Pollock
1961 Clement Greenberg Modernist Painting
  Susan Sontag Against Interpretation
1962 Claude Levi-Strauss The Savage Mind
1964 Antonin Artaud The Theatere and its Double
  Susan Sontag Notes on Camp
1965 Bob Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues
  Donald Judd Specific Objects
1966 Susan Sontag Against Interpretation
1966 - 67 Robert Morris Notes on Sculpture
1967 Roland Barthes The Death of the Author
  Michael Fried Art and Objecthood
  Marshall McLuhan The Medium is the Massage (Message)
  Guy Debord The Society of the Spectacle
  Clement Greenberg The Recentness of Sculpture
  Roland Barthes Elements of Semiology
  Michael Foucault Of Other Spaces
1968 Robert Morris Anti Form
  Robert Smithson The Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects
  Roland Barthes The Death of the Author
1969 Joseph Kosuth Art After Philosophy
  Michael Foucault What is an Author?
1971 Linda Nochlin Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists
  John Berger Was of Seeing
1973 Laura Mulvey Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
  Lucy Lippard Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object
1974 Juliet Mitchell Psychoanalyses and Feminism
  Peter Burger The Theory of the Avant Garde
1975 Leo Steinberg Other Criteria
1978 Jacques Derrida The Truth in Painting
1977 Charles Jencks The Language of Post-Modern Architecture
  Susan Sontag Illness as Metaphor
  Jean-Francois Lyotard Trans/ Formers
1979 Jean-Francois Lyotard The Postmodern Condition
  Mary Kelly Post Partum Document
  Douglas Crimp Pictures
  Germaine Greer The Obstacle Race
1980 Julia Kristeva Powers of Horror:  An Essay on Abjection
  Douglas Crimp The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism
  Carig Owens The Allegorical Impulse`
1981 Benjamin Buchloh Figures of Authority, Ciphers of Regression
  Douglas Crimp The End of Painting
    On The Museum's Ruins
1984 Frederic Jameson Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
1990 Anna Chave Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power
1992 Arthur Danto Modern, Postmodern and Contemporary
1994 Richard Serra Writings/ Interviews, pg. 3 - 4
2002 Daniel A. Siedell Contemporary Art Criticism and the Legacy of Clement Greenberg

 

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