Roger Shattuck: The Innocent Eye

On Modern Literature and the Arts

Browse Return to Previous Page       Related Subjects All Subjects Art: History & Theory

by Roger Shattuck

Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)

Due/Published November 2003, 368 pages, paper

ISBN 0878466541

Back in print (F03)

Emphasizing individual works and artists over theory and method, and with an authoritativeness characteristic of all his writing, Shattuck embraces a wide range of themes, including politics, theatricality, the dynamics of artistic movements and the nature of consciousness. The essays here range from his celebrated analyses of Dada and the 1935 International Writers' Congress, to fresh considerations of 19th- and 20th-century literature, to studies of Monet, Magritte and the art writings of Meyer Shapiro.