Expressionism
Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often controversial new movement in early twentieth-century Germany and Austria: Expressionism. This publication introduces these artists and their work. The author, art historian Ashley Bassie, explains how Expressionist art led the way to a new, intense, evocative…
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- Full title :Expressionism / Ashley Bassie.
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Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often controversial new movement in early twentieth-century Germany and Austria: Expressionism. This publication introduces these artists and their work. The author, art historian Ashley Bassie, explains how Expressionist art led the way to a new, intense, evocative treatment of psychological, emotional and social themes in the early twentieth century. The book exam.
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- Publication Date:©2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Parkstone International
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (199 pages) : : color illustrations.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1283952351, 9781283952354, 9781780428147, 1780428146, 1844844579, 9781844844579
- oclc:ocn843046870
- LC Classification:ND196.E9
- Dewey Decimal:709.04
Table of Contents
What is Expressionism? -- "German" art? Expressionism's origins and sources -- The body and nature -- The self and the psyche -- The metropolis and modernity -- Vision and the spirit -- War and revolution -- The end of Expressionism? -- Major artists.
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