New Perspectives on Brücke Expressionism: Bridging History

ISBN-13: 9781409412038 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 344 str.

Christian Weikop

Opis

Offers the reassessment in English of the importance of the Brucke group to German modernism specifically and to international modernism more generally. This title challenges, and interrogates existing orthodoxies in the field of Brucke studies by deploying research combined with interpretative approaches.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Part I Cultural and Material Identity: Introduction, Christian Weikop; Brücke, German expressionism and the issue of modernism, Rose-Carol Washton Long; Brücke, French art and German national identity, Timothy O. Benson; Some re-considerations of Brücke's 'new German style': shape, components and ramifications, Reinhold Heller; Wood - 'primitive' material for the creation of 'German sculpture', Monika Wagner. Part II Collectivity and Selfhood: Introduction, Christian Weikop; Künstlergruppe Brücke and the public sphere: bridging the gender divide, Shulamith Behr; Difficult Kirchner - alternative traditions, visual tensions, autodidactism, Colin Rhodes; Otto Mueller and the Brücke: a creative dialogue, Tanja Pirsig-Marshall; Max Pechstein: outsider or trailblazer?, Aya Soika; Intersubjectivity and selfhood of the Brücke: a Kohutian perspective, Donald Kuspit. Part III Defamation and Rehabilitation: Introduction, Christian Weikop; Old masters of modern art: Brücke after 1945, John-Paul Stonard; The art of Brücke as a political issue, Christian Saehrendt; The British reception of Brücke and German expressionism, Christian Weikop; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Christian Weikop is an expert on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German art and culture, and has lectured at various institutions in the UK and Germany.