Theory

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 Sharper Categories For Theory:  Class  Race  Gender  Capitalism <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Critical Theory <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Modernism <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Postmodernism <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Psychoanalytic Theory <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Postcolonial Theory <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Deconstructionism <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Constructivism <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Cultural Theory <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Social Theory <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Gender Studies <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Feminism <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Black Studies <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Queer Theory <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Popular Culture / Everyday <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Visual Culture <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Semiotics <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Literary Theory <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Cinema Studies <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Architectural Theory <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Space <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Time <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Spectacle <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Consumer Aesthetics / Culture

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> People: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Plato <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Aristotle <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Socrates <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Wilhelm Hegel <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Friedrich Nietzsche <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Jean-Francois Lyotard <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Levi Strauss <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Judith Butler <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Cornel West <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> WEB Du Bois <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Ad Reinhardt <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Stanley Cavell <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Asger Jorn <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Robert Smithson <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Piero Manzoni <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Germano Celant <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Emile Zola <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Hugo Ball <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Tristan Tzara <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Georges Bataille <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Guy Debord <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Jaques Lacan <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Dick Hebdige <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Rudolf Arnheim <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Theodore Adorno <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Max Horkheimer <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Arjun Appadurai <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Slovoj Zizek <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Henri Lefebvre <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Marshall McLuhan <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Walter Benjamin <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Michael Foucault <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Michael de Certeau <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Jean Baudrillard <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Pierre Bourdieu <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Frederick Jameson <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Clement Greenberg <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Edward Said <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Paulo Freire <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> bell hooks <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Gayatri Spivak <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Edward Soja <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Horace Cayton <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> St. Clair Drake <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Rene Decartes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Immanuel Kant <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Jean-Paul Sartre <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Jaques Derrida <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Giles Deleuze <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Felix Guattari <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Stuart Hall <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Simon During <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Karl Marx <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Homi Bhabha <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Terry Eagleton <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Antonio Gramsci <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Marcel Du Champ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Roland Barthes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> David Harvey <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Charles Jencks <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Robert Venturi <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> La Corbusier

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Art Critics: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Lawrence Alloway <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Guillaume Apollinaire <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Zacharie Astruc <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Albert Aurier <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Charles Baudelaire <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Sister Wendy Beckett <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Clive Bell <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Bernard Berenson <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> John Berger <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> John Canaday <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Champfleury <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Kenneth Clark <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> T.J. Clark <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Robert Coates <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Clarence Cook <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Royal Cortissoz <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Arthur Danto <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Denis Diderot <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> James Elkins <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Félix Fénéon <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Peter Frank <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Michael Fried <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Roger Fry <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Clement Greenberg <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Dave Hickey <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Robert Hughes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Edouard Jaguer <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Michael Kimmelman <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Hilton Kramer <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Rosalind Krauss <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Donald Kuspit <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Julien Leclercq <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Louis Leroy <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Lucy Lippard <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Giovanni Lista <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Camille Mauclair <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Octave Mirbeau <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Robert C. Morgan <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Linda Nochlin <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Frank O'Hara <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Saul Ostrow <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Griselda Pollock <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Arlene Raven <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Herbert Read <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Pierre Restany <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Barbara Rose <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Harold Rosenberg <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Robert Rosenblum <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> John Ruskin <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> John Russell <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Frank Rutter <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> André Salmon <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Jerry Saltz <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Irving Sandler <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Peter Schjeldahl <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Brian Sewell <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Roberta Smith <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Rafael Squirru <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Leo Stein <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Leo Steinberg <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Michel Tapié <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Théophile Thoré-Bürger <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Tristan Tzara <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Louis Vauxcelles <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Karen Wilkin <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Émile Zola