Art International An Anthology of Post-War Art Writing

For over three decades, Art International was the beating heart of the post-war art world--a magazine where artists and critics met as equals, ideas crossed oceans, and modern art found its global voice. Founded in Zurich in 1959 by the maverick American James Fitzsimmons, it became the essential forum for the era's sharpest minds: Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Lucy Lippard, Rosalind Krauss, Michael Fried, John Berger, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze. Here the great debates of modernism and its aftermath played out, from Abstract Expressionism to Pop, Minimalism to Conceptualism, with artists such as Bacon, Judd, Motherwell, and Kiefer speaking directly from its pages.

This definitive anthology, edited by Art International's final editors Michael Peppiatt and Jill Lloyd, gathers the magazine's most original and influential writing--along with artists' manifestoes, correspondence, and rare critical texts unseen for decades. Lavishly illustrated with archival material, covers, and artworks, it offers a vivid panorama of art's most transformative period and the critics who made sense of it.

A landmark in art publishing, Art International: An Anthology of Post-War Art Writing restores to view the magazine that defined an epoch and the dialogue that shaped the modern art world as we know it.