A valuable and comprehensive guide to modern responses to art, Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century features more than forty essays on major 20th century writers and thinkers written by an international panel of expert contributors. Introducing readers to the key approaches and analytical tools of contemporary art study and debate, each entry includes a critical essay, a short biography, and a bibliography listing both primary and secondary texts. Featured in this unique book are such important figures as Theodor Adorno, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freudand Jacques Lacan.