Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring 48 essays on the most important twentieth century writers and thinkers and written by an international panel of expert contributors, it introduces readers to key approaches and analytical tools used in the study of contemporary art. It discusses writers such as Adorno, Barthes, Benjamin, Freud, Greenberg, Heuser, Kristeva, Merleau-Ponty, Pollock, Read and Sontag.

Chapter 1 Theodor Adorno (1903-69), Richard Hooker; Chapter 2 Rudolf Arnheim (1904-), David Pariser; Chapter 3 Mieke Bal (1946-), Norman Bryson; Chapter 4 Roland Barthes (1915-80), Mary Bittner Wiseman; Chapter 5 Jean Baudrillard (1929-), Mike Gane; Chapter 6 Michael Baxandall (1933-), D.R. Edward Wright; Chapter 7 Clive Bell (1881-1964), Carol S. Gould; Chapter 8 Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), Marcus Bullock; Chapter 9 John Berger (1926-), Alan Wallach; Chapter 10 Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), Bridget Fowler; Chapter 11 Norman Bryson (1949-), Mieke Bal; Chapter 12 T.J. Clark (1943-), Jonathan Harris; Chapter 13 R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943), Aaron Ridley; Chapter 14 Benedetto Croce (1866-1952), Hugh Bredin; Chapter 15 Hubert Damisch (1928-), Ernst Van Alphen; Chapter 16 Arthur C. Danto (1924-), Mark Rollins; Chapter 17 Jacques Derrida (1930-), Stuart Sim; Chapter 18 John Dewey (1859-1952), Casey Haskins; Chapter 19 Henri Focillon (1881-1943), Alexandra Gajewski-Kennedy; Chapter 20 Michel Foucault (1926-84), David Macey; Chapter 21 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), David Macey; Chapter 22 Roger Fry (1866-1934), Carol S. Gould; Chapter 23 Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), Nicholas Davey; Chapter 24 Ernst Gombrich (1909-2001), Juliet Graver Istrabadi; Chapter 25 Nelson Goodman (1906-98), Charles Nussbaum; Chapter 26 Clement Greenberg (1909-94), Paul Barlow; Chapter 27 Arnold Hauser (1892-1978), Paul Barlow; Chapter 28 Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), Paul Gorner; Chapter 29 Julia Kristeva (1941-), Kelly Oliver; Chapter 30 Jacques Lacan (1901-81), David Macey; Chapter 31 Susanne K. Langer (1895-1985), Donald Dryden; Chapter 32 Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-), Boris Wiseman; Chapter 33 Alain Leroy Locke (1886-1954), Tommy L. Lott; Chapter 34 Jean-François Lyotard (1924-98), Stuart Sim; Chapter 35 Émile Mâle (1862-1954), Julian M. Luxford; Chapter 36 André Malraux (1901-76), Geoffrey T. Harris; Chapter 37 Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61), Daniel F. Chamberlain; Chapter 38 Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968), Juliet Graver Istrabadi; Chapter 39 Griselda Pollock (1949-), Sue Malvern; Chapter 40 Herbert Read (1893-1968), Michael Paraskos; Chapter 41 Meyer Schapiro (1904-96), David Craven; Chapter 42 Georg Simmel (1858-1918), Willi Goetschel; Chapter 43 Susan Sontag (1933-), Carl Rollyson; Chapter 44 Adrian Stokes (1902-72), Stephen Kite; Chapter 45 Aby Warburg (1866-1933), Richard Woodfield; Chapter 46 Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Peter B. Lewis; Chapter 47 Heinrich Wölfflin (1864-1945), Linnea Wren, Travis Nygard; Chapter 48 Richard Wollheim (1923-), Lloyd Reinhardt; Chapter 49 Wilhelm Worringer (1881-1965), Marcus Bullock;