Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)

Twentieth-century art has usually been analysed in terms of intellectual aesthetic principles. But several important artists of this century were motivated less by aesthetic ideas than by spiritual values. Ann Davis considers the work of five of the most dynamic and innovative Canadian painters of the period: Bertram Brooker, Emily Carr, Lawren Harris, Jock Macdonald, and Fred Varley. She shows how these artists strove to work with mystical forms, those involved a transcendent, direct, selfless, unitive experience of God or ultimate reality.

None of these artists was motivated solely by...

In honor of the centennial of Beauford Delaney's birth, An Artistic Friendship examines the close artistic and personal friendship between two important American artists of the twentieth century, Beauford Delaney and Lawrence Calcagno. An unlikely pair, the two became friends in Paris in the early 1950s and remained close over the next twenty years until Delaney's deteriorating mental health removed him from his orbit of friends and family. Delaney (1901-79), a black American from Knoxville, Tennessee, spent most of his mature life as an expatriate artist in Paris. Lawrence...

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) offenbarte in seiner synthetischen Buhnenkunst "Buhnenkomposition" sein Konzept des Gesamtkunstwerks, das auf seiner kunstmissionarischen Weltanschauung beruht. Darin experimentierte er mit der Darstellbarkeit des Geistigen auf der Buhne und suchte dafur eine geeignete Formen- und Farbsprache.

Die vorliegende Studie legt erstmals eine vollstandige Interpretation der vier fruhen Buhnenkompositionen durch eine grenzubergreifende theaterwissenschaftlich-ikonographische Korper- und Bewegungsanalyse vor, womit die Tetralogie als Vorgeschichte des Blauen...

Max Pechstein (1881-1955) is one of the most prominent German artists of the twentieth century, not least because of his crucial role in the breakthrough of German Expressionism. This long overdue biography combines the portrayal of an outstanding artistic personality with the story of an individual German who struggled through the political upheavals of his time. Pechstein's work is presented in the cultural context of museum politics and art associations, art dealers and critics, market forces and cultural trends.

Diego Velazquez spent his formative years at the center of artistic life in seventeenth-century Seville, a gateway to the New World characterized by intellectual debate, religious fervor, and mounting ethnic tensions. Yet critics have often divorced the painter's novel style and subject matter from the city's unique pictorial and cultural traditions. In Diego Velazquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville, Tanya J. Tiffany demonstrates that Velazquez's works not only engaged Seville's social practices but also raised issues of vital importance to...

• Incorporates new and updated topics that have become central to art theory and practice over the past decade
• New and updated chapters cover such topics as: international biennials, historicizing of the term...

• Provides a much-needed corrective to the Eurocentric historiography of modern art, offering a more worldly and expanded view than any existing modern art survey
• Brings together a selection of major essays and historical documents from a wide range of...

• Provides a much-needed corrective to the Eurocentric historiography of modern art, offering a more worldly and expanded view than any existing modern art survey
• Brings together a selection of major essays and historical documents from a wide range of...