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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818414603321

Titolo

German expressionism : Der Blaue Reiter and its legacies / / edited by Dorothy Price

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5261-2164-6

1-5261-5829-9

1-5261-2163-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Manchester scholarship online

Disciplina

759.3

Soggetti

Blaue Reiter (Group of artists)

Expressionism (Art) - Germany

Art, German - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : why does Der Blaue Reiter still matter? / Dorothy Price and Christopher Short -- Is Der Blaue Reiter relevant for the twenty-first century? A discussion of anarchism, art and politics / Rose-Carol Washton Long -- The dynamics of gendered artistic identity and creativity in Der Blaue Reiter / Shulamith Behr -- The 'primitive' and the modern in Der Blaue Reiter almanac and the Folkwang Museum / Katherine Kuenzli -- The 'savages' of Germany : a reassessment of the relationship between Der Blaue Reiter and Die Brücke / Christian Weikop -- Kleinkunst and Gesamtkunstwerk in Munich and Zurich : Der Blaue Reiter and Dada / Deborah Lewer -- Type/Face : Wassily Kandinsky and Walter Benjamin on language and perception / Annie Bourneuf -- Feeling blue : Der Blaue Reiter, Francophilia and the Tate Gallery, 1960 / Nathan J. Timpano -- Die Tunisreise : the legacy of Der Blaue Reiter in the art of Paul Klee and Nacer Khemir / Sarah McGavran.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction. It offers a perspective on familiar aspects of expressionism and abstraction, taking seriously the inheritance of modernism for the twenty-first century.