This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction. It offers a novel perspective on familiar aspects of Expressionism and abstraction, taking seriously the inheritance of modernism for the twenty-first century. -- .
Über den Autor
Dorothy Price is Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of figuresnList of contributorsnIntroduction: why does der Blaue Reiter still matter? - Dorothy Price and Christopher Shortn1 Is der Blaue Reiter relevant for the twenty-first century? A discussion of anarchism, art and politics - Rose-Carol Washton Longn2 The dynamics of gendered artistic identity and creativity in der Blaue Reiter - Shulamith Behrn3 The 'primitive' and the modern in Der Blaue Reiter almanac and the Folkwang Museum - Katherine Kuenzlin4 The 'savages' of Germany: a reassessment of the relationship between der Blaue Reiter and Brücke - Christian Weikopn5 Kleinkunst and Gesamtkunstwerk in Munich and Zurich: Der Blaue Reiter and Dada - Debbie Lewern6 Type/face: Wassily Kandinsky and Walter Benjamin on language and perception - Annie Bourneufn7 Feeling blue: Der Blaue Reiter, Francophilia and the Tate Gallery 1960 - Nathan J. Timpanon8 Die Tunisreise: the legacy of Der Blaue Reiter in the art of Paul Klee and Nacer Khemir - Sarah McGavran nIndex
Klappentext
This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction. It offers a novel perspective on familiar aspects of Expressionism and abstraction, taking seriously the inheritance of modernism for the twenty-first century.
