Central European avant-gardes : exchange and transformation, 1910-1930 / [edited by] Timothy O. Benson with curatorial assistance by Monika Król ; preface by Péter Nádas ; essays by Timothy O. Benson [and others].
Benson, Timothy O., 1950-; Los Angeles County Museum.; Haus der Kunst München.; Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)
2002
N6758 .C45 2002 (Mapit)
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Title
Central European avant-gardes : exchange and transformation, 1910-1930 / [edited by] Timothy O. Benson with curatorial assistance by Monika Król ; preface by Péter Nádas ; essays by Timothy O. Benson [and others].
ISBN
0262025221 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262025225 (hc. ; alk. paper)
Publication Details
Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Language
English
Description
447 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
Call Number
N6758 .C45 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification
709/.43/09041
Summary
Central European Avant-Gardes presents the first interpretive overview of the complex webs of interaction among the artists and intellectuals of early twentieth-century Central Europe. The key stylistic transformation of the period was from Expressionism to Constructivism, as artists and writers, against a volatile background of war and revolution, saw the opportunity literally to construct a new world through their work. The borders between the visual arts, photography, film, architecture, poetry, and typography were obliterated, as artists sought to transcend the forces of traditionalism to forge an elemental visual language that would overcome national and linguistic boundaries. Yet at the same time that these artists advocated pluralism and unity, their work engaged issues such as nationalism and tradition that still resonate in artistic circles today. The book, which accompanies a major exhibition organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and curated by Timothy Benson, assisted by Monika.
Krol, is arranged around events and situations rather than by linear, art historical categories. It features hundreds of color plates and reproductions of documents; discussions of movements from Artificialism to Zenitism; essays on figures, publications, and exhibitions; and shorter "city views" of Belgrade, Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Cracow, Dessau, Ljubljana, úódz, Poznañ, Prague, Vienna, Warsaw, Weimar, and Zagreb.
Note
Exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mar. 3- June 2, 2002, Haus der Kunst, Munich, July 7- Oct. 6, 2002 and at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Nov. 2002- Feb. 2003.
Krol, is arranged around events and situations rather than by linear, art historical categories. It features hundreds of color plates and reproductions of documents; discussions of movements from Artificialism to Zenitism; essays on figures, publications, and exhibitions; and shorter "city views" of Belgrade, Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Cracow, Dessau, Ljubljana, úódz, Poznañ, Prague, Vienna, Warsaw, Weimar, and Zagreb.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-430) and index.
Added Author
Benson, Timothy O., 1950-
Added Corporate Author
Los Angeles County Museum.
Haus der Kunst München.
Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)
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Central European avant-gardes.
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Foreword / Andrea L. Rich
Introduction / Timothy O. Benson
A careful definiton of the locale : walking around and around a solitary wild pear tree / Péter Nádas
Exchange and transformation : the internationalization of the avant-garde(s) in Central Europe / Timothy O. Benson
Nationalism and modernity / Anthony D. Smith
Progue / Lenka Bydžovská
The first Skupina exhibition, Prague, 1912
Surrealities / Derek Sayer
Poetry in the Midst of the world : the avant-garde as projectile / Karel Srp
Central Europe : the linguistic turn / Michael Henry Heim
Budapest / Lee Congdon
Between cultures : Hungarian concepts of constructivism / Éva Forgács
Vienna / Pál Deréky
Art into life : international constructivism in Central and Eastern Europe / Christina Lodder
Berlin / Krisztina Passuth
Weimar / Éva Bajkay
The first Bauhaus exhibition, Weimar, 1923
Dessau / Éva Bajkay
The exhibition as a work of art : avant garde exhibitions in East Central Europe / Krisztina Passuth
Bucharest / Ioana Vlasiu
Zabreb / Želimir Koščević
Ljubomir Micić and the Zenitist Utopia / Esther Levinger
Belgrade / Miško Šuvaković
Ljubljana / Lev Kreft
Methodology and meaning in the Modern Art of Eastern Europe / S.A. Mansbach
Poznań / Jerzy Malinowski
Modernity and nationalism : avant-garde art and Polish independence, 1912-1922 / Piotr Piotrowski
Cracow / Tomasz Gryglewicz
Warsaw / Dorota Folga-Januszewska
Collaboration and compromise : women artist in Polish-German avant-garde circles, 1910-1930 / Monika Król
Łódź / Jaromir Jedlińsky
The phenomenon of blurring / Andrzej Turowski.

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