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Post-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of the best art history writings of the Post-Impressionist period.

Several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger knit together primary sources and classic, "canonical" criticism.

• Collects the most important writings on art history from Post-Impressionism to the mid-20th century, covering both canonical and contemporary perspectives
• Offers a chronicle of avant-garde practice during an especially creative, if volatile, period of history
• Features several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger
• Includes recent critical interventions from a range of methodological perspectives – both well-known and less familiar
• Organizes material thematically, and features introductory essays to each of the five sections
• Provides a valuable, stimulating resource for students and teachers alike and offers new ways to think about and teach this important period in art history.

Debbie Lewer is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Glasgow. She has published essays in Dada Zurich: A Clown’s Game from Nothing (edited by B. Pichon and K. Rihs, 1996) and Printed Matters: Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture in the Modern Period, (edited by M. Gee and T. Kirk, 2000).