Charles Harrison wrote and edited art history and theory focused on modernism, conceptual art and the relationship between artworks and the arguments made around them. Art in Theory, edited with Paul Wood and later Jason Gaiger, gathers manifestos, essays, letters and statements from artists and critics, allowing readers to follow changing ideas from modernism into postmodernism through primary texts. Harrison’s own books, including essays on modern art and work connected with Art & Language, examine how theory becomes part of artistic practice rather than merely commentary added afterwards. His writing is academic, analytical and particularly useful to students who need to connect named movements with the texts artists actually read or wrote. Art in Theory is Harrison’s most practically useful contribution for students, because it places artists’ manifestos and critical texts beside the movements they helped define rather than summarising those arguments second-hand. Read more Less
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