The German Expressionists

The German Expressionists
Author: Bernard S. Myers
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1963
Genre: Expressionism (Art)
ISBN:

A serious and detailed study of German expressionism. The Expressionist Movement is presented in a total framework and on a level comparable with other forms of modern art.

German Expressionism 1915-1925

German Expressionism 1915-1925
Author: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Publisher: Te Neues Publishing Company
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1988
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Looks at the development of the Expressionist movement, profiles leading artists, and shows examples of paintings, prints, and sculpture.

German Expressionist Plays: Gottfried Benn, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller, and Others

German Expressionist Plays: Gottfried Benn, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller, and Others
Author: Ernst Schurer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1997-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826409508

This volume in The German Library includes the following authors and plays, which best represent the Expressionist movement of the early 20th century: -- Georg Kaiser: Gas I and Gas II -- Ernst Toller: Masses and Man -- Gottfried Benn: Ithaka -- Oskar Kokoschka: Murderer the Women's Hope -- Carl Sternheim: The Bloomers -- Walter Hasenclever: The Son>

German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation

German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation
Author: Lisa Marie Anderson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9401200513

This book reads messianic expectation as the defining characteristic of German culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. It has long been accepted that the Expressionist movement in Germany was infused with a thoroughly messianic strain. Here, with unprecedented detail and focus, that strain is traced through the work of four important Expressionist playwrights: Ernst Barlach, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller and Franz Werfel. Moreover, these dramatists are brought into new and sustained dialogues with the theorists and philosophers of messianism who were their contemporaries: Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Hermann Cohen, Gershom Scholem. In arguing, for example, that concepts like Bloch’s utopian self-encounter (Selbstbegegnung) and Benjamin’s messianic now-time (Jetztzeit) reappear as the framework for Expressionism’s staging of collective redemption in a new age, Anderson forges a previously underappreciated link in the study of Central European thought in the early twentieth century.

The German Expressionists; a Generation in Revolt

The German Expressionists; a Generation in Revolt
Author: Bernard Samuel 1908- Dn Myers
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781014847614

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German Expressionism

German Expressionism
Author: Dorothy Price
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2020-06-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1526121646

This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction. For the first time Blaue Reiter is subjected to a variety of novel inter-disciplinary perspectives, ranging from a philosophical enquiry into its language and visual perception to analyses of its gender dynamics, its reception at different historical junctures throughout the twentieth century and its legacies for post-colonial aesthetic practices. The volume offers a new perspective on familiar aspects of Expressionism and abstraction, taking seriously the inheritance of modernism for the twenty-first century in ways that will help to recalibrate the field of Expressionist studies for future scholarship. Blaue Reiter still matters, the contributors argue, because the legacies of abstraction are still being debated by artists, writers, philosophers and cultural theorists today.

New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism

New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism
Author: Christian Weikop
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351556444

New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism: Bridging History brings together highly-renowned international art historians in a scholarly work that offers the first full-length reassessment in English of the importance of the Br?cke group to German modernism specifically and to international modernism more generally. It challenges, interrogates and updates existing orthodoxies in the field of Br?cke studies by deploying new research combined with innovative interpretative approaches. This is an exciting volume of essays with an interlinking tripartite structure that charts the significance of this pioneering German avant-garde group in relation to various critical themes, namely, 'cultural and material identity', 'collectivity and selfhood', as well as 'defamation and rehabilitation'. The book is unique in the field in that it seeks to excavate specific historical research relating to the activities of the Br?cke as a bohemian yet nonetheless enterprising artists' community, and considers the contributions of the key members in relation to the dynamics of that group rather than simply on an individual basis. It thoroughly explores the historiography of the Br?cke artists' reception throughout the turbulent history of the twentieth century up until the present day.

Max Pechstein: The Rise and Fall of Expressionism

Max Pechstein: The Rise and Fall of Expressionism
Author: Bernhard Fulda
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3110282089

Max Pechstein (1881–1955) is one of the most prominent German artists of the twentieth century, not least because of his crucial role in the breakthrough of German Expressionism. This long overdue biography combines the portrayal of an outstanding artistic personality with the story of an individual German who struggled through the political upheavals of his time. Pechstein's work is presented in the cultural context of museum politics and art associations, art dealers and critics, market forces and cultural trends.

A Study Guide for "Expressionism"

A Study Guide for
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410345505

A Study Guide for "Expressionism," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.