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

Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting accompanies the first comprehensive exhibition of artwork by Xu Beihong hown outside Asia. It highlights a selection of 61 Chinese ink paintings, oil paintings, drawings, and pastels from the Xu Beihong Memorial Museum in Beijing.

Xu Beihong (1895-1953) was among the first Chinese artists to study Western-style painting in Europe, and he is often called the "Father of Modern Chinese Painting." His images, particularly of horses, are familiar throughout China, as are his monumental history paintings Tian Heng and His Five...

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...

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.