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Book Max Beckmann in New York

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sabine Rewald
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2016-10-19
  • ISBN : 1588396002
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Max Beckmann in New York written by Sabine Rewald and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1950, the German Expressionist Max Beckmann set out from his Manhattan apartment to see his Self-Portrait in Blue Jacket, on view at The Met, when he suffered a fatal heart attack. Inspired by the poignant circumstances of the artist’s death, Max Beckmann in New York focuses on 40 beautifully illustrated works that Beckmann painted in the city during the last 16 months of his life, as well as earlier works in New York collections. An informative and accessible essay by art historian Sabine Rewald, as well as detailed catalogue entries for each work and generous excerpts from the artist’s letters, diaries, and ephemera, illuminate Beckmann’s difficult and tumultuous life and make this an essential volume for anyone interested in the artist.

Book The Self Portrait  from Schiele to Beckmann

Download or read book The Self Portrait from Schiele to Beckmann written by Tobias G. Natter and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visually stunning volume offers perceptive examinations of several renowned German and Austrian Expressionist artists who redefined modern self-portraiture. The self-portrait has been a vital aspect of artistic expression throughout history. Neo-Classical painters such as El Greco and Rembrandt formalized the practice, and the first half of the 20th century saw a dramatic transformation in the self-portrait's style and context, especially in the hands of the German and Austrian Expressionists. Vibrant reproductions of works by Egon Schiele, Max Beckmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, and others are accompanied by essays that explore how these artists--many of whom were classified as "degenerate" by the Nazi party--imbued their images with eloquent expressions of resistance, isolation, entrapment, and provocation. From Schiele's erotically charged and overtly physical paintings to Beckmann's emotionally fraught depictions of psychic trauma, this important examination of a powerful aspect of modern European painting brilliantly illustrates how the Expressionist self-portrait became a powerful weapon against artistic oppression.

Book Max Beckmann

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jill Lloyd
  • Publisher : Neue Galerie New York
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 92 pages

Download or read book Max Beckmann written by Jill Lloyd and published by Neue Galerie New York. This book was released on 2008 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text by Jill Lloyd.

Book Max Beckmann

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  • Author : Peter Selz
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Max Beckmann written by Peter Selz and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Self Portrait in Words

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  • Author : Max Beckmann
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1997-03-15
  • ISBN : 9780226041353
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book Self Portrait in Words written by Max Beckmann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, Max Beckmann was labeled a "degenerate artist" by the Nazis and chose exile. His artistic production encompassed the realism and figural themes of his early works to the provocatively blunt portraiture, critical urban views, and richly layered symbolic works for which he is now universally recognized. Although he was a prolific writer, his written work has never before been collected and translated into English. Beckmann is known for the depth, pungency, and tremendous sensuous force of his works; only in the last twenty years have we come to learn more about his personal life. Self-Portrait in Words maps out Beckmann's life and draws attention to the occasions on or for which he produced his writings, to the importance writing had for him as a form of expression, and to both the contemporary and personal references of his ideas and images.

Book New Objectivity

Download or read book New Objectivity written by Stephanie Barron and published by Prestel. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the end of World War I and the Nazi assumption of power, Germany's Weimar Republic (1919-1933) functioned as a thriving laboratory of art and culture. As the country experienced unprecedented and often tumultuous social, economic and political upheaval, many artists rejected Expressionism in favour of a new realism to capture this emerging society. Dubbed Neue Sachlichkeit - New Objectivity - its adherents turned a cold eye on the new Germany: its desperate prostitutes and crippled war veterans, its alienated urban landscapes, its decadent underworld where anything was available for a price. Showcasing 150 works by more than 50 artists, this book reflects the full diversity and strategies of this art form. Organised around five thematic sections, it mixes photography, works on paper and painting to bring them into a visual dialogue. Artists such as Otto Dix, George Grosz and Max Beckmann are included alongside figures such as Christian Schad, Alexander Kanoldt, Georg Schrimpf, August Sander, Lotte Jacobi and Aenne Biermann. Also included are numerous essays that examine the politics of New Objectivity and its legacy, the relation of this new realism to international art movements of the time; the context of gender roles and sexuality; and the influence of new technology and consumer goods. Published in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. AUTHOR: Stephanie Barron is a Senior Curator and heads the Modern Art department at the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art. Sabine Eckmann is the William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri. 300 colour illustrations

Book Artists   Prints

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  • Author : Deborah Wye
  • Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780870701252
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Artists Prints written by Deborah Wye and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.

Book A Critical History of 20th century Art

Download or read book A Critical History of 20th century Art written by Donald B. Kuspit and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Max Beckmann

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  • Author : Museum Museum Barberini
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-10-03
  • ISBN : 9783791356969
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Max Beckmann written by Museum Museum Barberini and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Faces of World War I

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  • Author : Max Arthur
  • Publisher : Cassell Illustrated
  • Release : 2014-08-04
  • ISBN : 9781844037995
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Faces of World War I written by Max Arthur and published by Cassell Illustrated. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the Allies' entry into warfare in 1914, Max Arthur tells the story in words and pictures of the new conscripted army's life through the five years of slaughter and suffering. He brilliantly conveys not only the heroism, but also the universal horror, futility, humour and boredom of warfare. From the front-line troops and the daily dice with death, to the support lines, communications, enlistment, training and propaganda, every aspect of the soldier's life is covered in this brilliant collection of images and interviews that brings the Great War to life once more.

Book Hand and Head

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  • Author : Peter Springer
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2002-05
  • ISBN : 0520216261
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Hand and Head written by Peter Springer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Springer sees in it, not a harsh condemnation of militarism, but a marked ambivalence in the artist's attitude toward war. This new reading of the painting grows out of Springer's assessment of its imagery in relation to patronage, gender relations, and national identity - and particularly to propaganda and satire. Using Kirchner's letters and other documentation, much of it only recently available, Springer reconstructs the years of Kirchner's military service.

Book Art of the Twenties

Download or read book Art of the Twenties written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Glitter and Doom

Download or read book Glitter and Doom written by Sabine Rewald and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s Germany was in the grip of social and political turmoil: its citizens were disillusioned by defeat in World War I, the failure of revolution, the disintegration of their social system, and inflation of rampant proportions. Curiously, as this important book shows, these years of upheaval were also a time of creative ferment and innovative accomplishment in literature, theater, film, and art. Glitter and Doom is the first publication to focus exclusively on portraits dating from the short-lived Weimar Republic. It features forty paintings and sixty drawings by key artists, including Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, and George Grosz. Their works epitomize Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), in particular the branch of that new form of realism called Verism, which took as its subject contemporary phenomena such as war, social problems, and moral decay. Subjects of their incisive portraits are the artists' own contemporaries: actors, poets, prostitutes, and profiteers, as well as doctors, lawyers, businessmen, and other respectable citizens. The accompanying texts reveal how these portraits hold up a mirror to the glittering, vital, doomed society that was obliterated when Hitler came to power.

Book Max Beckmann and the Self

Download or read book Max Beckmann and the Self written by Wendy Beckett and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully produced volume uses Beckmann's own words as an introduction to the artist's creative expression and his unwavering search for the self.

Book Max Beckmann at the Saint Louis Art Museum

Download or read book Max Beckmann at the Saint Louis Art Museum written by St. Louis Art Museum and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secession years -- Arter World War I -- Paris calls -- Exile -- St. Louis -- St. Louis to New York

Book Renaissance Self portraiture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joanna Woods-Marsden
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300075960
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Renaissance Self portraiture written by Joanna Woods-Marsden and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the genesis and early development of the genre of self-portraiture in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries. The author examines a series of self-portraits in Renaissance Italy, arguing that they represented the aspirations of their creators to change their social standing.

Book German Expressionism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jill Lloyd
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780300043730
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book German Expressionism written by Jill Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primitivism versus modernity: the expressionist dilemma - Politics of primitivism - Brucke bathers: back to nature - Max Pechstein's visionary ideas - Emil Nolded.