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Expressionism: A Revolution in German Art
by Dietmar Elger  Synopsis In six chapters -- The Brucke Group of Artists, Northern German Expressionism, The Blaue Reiter, Rhenish Expressionism, The City and Expressionism in Vienna -- this publication deals with a specifically German artistic revolution, a phenomenon that has...
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Discoveries: Dada: The Revolt of Art (Discoveries)
by Marc Dachy Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries(r) volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
by Deborah Rothschild Synopsis Paris in the 1920s--art, literature, the Lost Generation. The glitterati who inhabited this legendary world--F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Cole Porter, Man Ray, Dorothy Parker, and a host of others--were members of an intimate...
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The Societe Anonyme: Modernism for America
by Jennifer R Gross Publisher Comments This beautifully illustrated book highlights the unique history of The Société Anonyme, Inc., an organization founded in 1920 by the artists Katherine S. Dreier (1877–1952), Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), and Man Ray (1890–1976)....
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The Blaue Reiter Almanac
by Wassily Kandinsky Book News Annotation Founded in 1911 and disbanded at the outbreak of World War I, the Blaue Reiter was the first systematic attempt to combine elements from multiple times and cultures into an avant-garde for the new century. This compendium of essays, images, and music...
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Surrealism (World of Art)
by Patrick Waldberg Publisher Comments The author, a member of the Surrealist movement, surveys Surrealism from its beginnings to the present time in this unique overview, available again after nearly 20 years....
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Fauvism (91 Edition)
by Sarah Whitfield Synopsis Les Fauvres (the wild beasts) was the nickname given in 1905 to a group of painters led by Henri Matisse and including Derain, Vlaminck, Braque and Dufy. This work offers a reappraisal of this popular movement and discusses all its aspects - the artists,...
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Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars (Modern Art--Practices & Debates)
by Briony Fer Synopsis Begins by considering responses by French artists to World War I, showing how Purism, Dada and early Surrealism are related to the ethos of post-war reconstruction. The book then discusses the language of construction in France, Germany and the USSR and...
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Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century (Modern Art--Practices & Debates)
by Charles Harrison Synopsis Presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the 20th century. The volume explores the invocation of the primitive at the end of the 19th century, analyzes Cubist works based on semiotic theory, and considers some problems of interpretation and...
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de Stijl (World of Art)
by Paul Overy Synopsis The ideas that later had such a marked influence on the architecture of Walter Gropius and others of the Bauhaus movement, and subsequently on commercial art and graphic design, were first advocated by the Dutch magazine "De Stijl"....
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Patron saints :five rebels who opened America to a new art, 1928-1943
by Nicholas Fox Weber Publisher Comments A fresh and exhilarating work of cultural history — the first book to follow the lives of five pioneering art patrons who, in the late 1920s and the 1930s, were instrumental in bringing modern painting, sculpture, and dance to America. These...
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Surrealism: Desire Unbound
by Jennifer Mundy Publisher Comments The surrealist leader Andre Breton described desire as the only master that man must recognize. One of surrealism's defining themes, desire was expressed variously in Dali's charged landscapes, Miro's lyric abstractions, and Bellmer's unsettling nudes...
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Weimar and Now #29: Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy
by Timothy O Benson Synopsis Published to accompany the exhibition "Expressionist Utopias" mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1993, this book explores how the optimistic themes of utopia and fantasy sustained faith among artists and architects in the power of art to shape a...
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Surreal People
by Alexander Klar Publisher Comments The web of friendships within the Surrealist circle was a key source of inspiration for this close group of artists and writers, and many of their greatest works stem from a collaborative approach to the creative process. Surreal People is a fascinating...
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Modernism
by Richard Weston Synopsis Modernist ideas have pervaded every form of design, from graphics to architecture, as well as being a key influence on art, literature and music. In this comprehensive survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its...
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Peggy Guggenheim & Frederick Kiesler: The Story of Art of This Century
by Philip Rylands Synopsis In the 1940's New York was the crucible for post-war American and European art, and at the heart of this was Peggy Guggenheim and her remarkable museum/gallery, made instantly the most sensational venue of the avant-garde in New York by Frederick Kiesler'...
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The Home of the Surrealists: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and Their Circle at Farley Farm
by Antony Penrose Publisher Comments -- Lee Miller is a cult figure and her superb black and white photography constantly tours galleries around the world -- Offers new insights into the world of the Surrealists -- Specially commissioned photography from the acclaimed Alen MacWeeney Written...
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Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder
by Mark Nelson and Sarah Hudson Bayliss Publisher Comments Bridging the worlds of high art and true crime, Exquisite Corpse presents a unique perspective on the most notorious unsolved murder case of the twentieth century — the bizarre 1947 killing of Elizabeth Short, better known as the Black Dahlia murder....
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Surrealism and Modernism: From the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
by Eric Zafran Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-134) and index....
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Artist & the Camera Degas To Picasso
by Dorothy Kosinski Publisher Comments Artists discovered and explored the artistic and practical applications of photography at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. This stunning book explores the highly individual ways some of the most influential artists...
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