The Total Artwork in Expressionism
The Total Artwork in Expressionism

Author: Ralf Beil

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Pub

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9783775727136

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"In the past, the various categories of Expressionism have usually been treated separately. The [title] is the first comprehensive publication ever to examine the remarkable interplay of --and parallel developments in-- art, film, literautre, theater, dance, and architecture in the years 1905 to 1925. The Exhibition and the catalogue bring together the masterpieces of Expressionist film such as 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' and 'Genuine', architectural models, set designs, stage photographs, poster art, dance masks, paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures to present a unique panorama of the Expressionist period. Addressing a disastrous war, a revolution, urban modernity, and the reinvention of the world, this is the first book in which renowned authors, key works, and source texts from all disciplines come together to allow the reader to thoroughly experience the ways in which the various areas of activity mutually influenced each other, as well as the equally dramatic and fascinating fruits of Expressionism's networks." --Jacket.

The Total Work of Art
The Total Work of Art

Author: David Imhoof

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 178533185X

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For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work of Richard Wagner, Gesamtkunstwerk’s lineage and legacies extend well beyond German Romanticism, as this wide-ranging collection demonstrates. In eleven compact chapters, scholars from a variety of disciplines trace the idea’s evolution in German-speaking Europe, from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond, providing an uncommonly broad perspective on a distinctly modern cultural form.

German Expressionism
German Expressionism

Author: Stephanie Barron

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 9780500237502

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In the early years of the 20th century, a group of young artists including Ernst Kirchner, Vassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, liberated themselves from traditional representation by using distortion and vibrant, unrealistic colour in their painting. Eroticism became a tool for exposing the lies and decadence of society, whilst motifs borrowed from African, Oceanic and Buddhist art further questioned bourgeois culture. Later, the cruelty of World War I was reflected violently in the work of Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and George Grosz.

German Expressionist Woodcuts
German Expressionist Woodcuts

Author: Shane Weller

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-05-11

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 0486134113

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Over 100 works by Beckmann, Feininger, Kirchner, Kollwitz, Nolde, Marc, and others. Distorted, stylized forms embody revolutionary mood of the early 20th century. Introduction. Captions. Notes on artists.

The Blaue Reiter Almanac
The Blaue Reiter Almanac

Author: Wassily Kandinsky

Publisher:

Published: 2006-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781854376732

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The Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) art movement was founded in 1911, by the young painters Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, and remained active in Europe until 1914. Originally published in Munich, in 1912, and edited by Kandinsky and Marc, The Blaue Reiter Almanac presented the movement's synthesis of international culture to the European avant-garde at large. In both the selection of the essays and its innovative interplay of word and image, the Almanac remains one of the most critically important works on artistic theory and culture of the twentieth century. This edition, long unavailable in English and indispensable to any student of modernism, includes the original documents and musical notations, as well as essays by Kandinsky, Schonberg, Marc, and others, and an extensive critical introduction, placing the Blaue Reiter in context for contemporary readers.

The Expressionist Turn in Art History
The Expressionist Turn in Art History

Author: KimberlyA. Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1351544721

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During the period in which Expressionist artists were active in central Europe, art historians were producing texts which also began to be characterized evocatively as ?expressionist?, yet the notion of an expressionist art history has yet to be fully explored in historiographic studies of the discipline. This anthology offers a cross-section of noteworthy art history texts that have been described as expressionist, along with critical commentaries by an international group of scholars. Written between 1912 and 1933, the primary sources have been selected from the published scholarship of both recognized and less-familiar figures in the field's Germanic tradition: Wilhelm Worringer, Fritz Burger, Ernst Heidrich, Max Dvor? Heinrich W?lfflin, and Carl Einstein. Translated here for the first time, these examples of an expressionist turn in art history, along with their secondary analyses and the book's introduction, offer a productive lens through which to re-examine the practice and theory of art history in the early twentieth century.

Gesamtkunstwerk Expressionismus - Kunst, Film, Literatur, Theater, Tanz und Architektur 1905 bis 1925
Gesamtkunstwerk Expressionismus - Kunst, Film, Literatur, Theater, Tanz und Architektur 1905 bis 1925

Author: Ralf Beil

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9783775727129

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Summary: The various categories of Expressionism have in the past usually been treated separately. Gesamtkunstwerk Expressionismus, however, is the first publication ever to examine the remarkable interplay of and parallel developments in art, film, literature, theater, dance, and architecture in the years 1905 to 1925. The exhibition and the catalogue unite masterpieces of Expressionist film, such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Genuine, architectural models, set designs, stage photographs, poster art, dance masks, paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures to form a unique panorama of the Expressionist period. Also available the official audioguide to the exhibition: "Kunst zum Hören: Gesamtkunstwerk Expressionismus"; 64 pages; 49 col. ill., hardcover. German (9783775727266) and English (9783775727273) edition, October 2010. Exhibition: Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt (24.1.2010 - 13.2.2011).