German expressionism : Der Blaue Reiter and its legacies.

Price, Dorothy.

German expressionism : Der Blaue Reiter and its legacies. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020. ©2020. - 1 online resource (209 pages)

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Front Matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: why does Der Blaue Reiter still matter? -- Is Der Blaue Reiter relevant for the twenty-first century? A discussion of anarchism, art and politics -- The dynamics of gendered artistic identity and creativity in Der Blaue Reiter -- The 'primitive' and the modern in Der Blaue Reiter almanac and the Folkwang Museum -- The 'savages' of Germany: a reassessment of the relationship between Der Blaue Reiter and Die Brücke -- Kleinkunst and Gesamtkunstwerk in Munich and Zurich: Der Blaue Reiter and Dada -- Type/Face: Wassily Kandinsky and Walter Benjamin on language and perception -- Feeling blue: Der Blaue Reiter, Francophilia and the Tate Gallery, 1960 -- Die Tunisreise: the legacy of Der Blaue Reiter in the art of Paul Klee and Nacer Khemir -- Index.

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.

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Blaue Reiter
Expressionismus
Kunst


Deutschland

Art, German-20th century. Expressionism (Art)-Germany.



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