Expressionist Utopias

Author : Timothy O. Benson,David Frisby
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015032878368

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Expressionist Utopias by Timothy O. Benson,David Frisby Pdf

The notion of utopia exists in every culture, capturing shared dreams and common goals. This book--prepared to accompany the exhibition "Expressionist Utopias "mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1993--explores how the optimistic themes of utopia and fantasy sustained faith among artists and architects in the power of art to shape a better world during the tumultuous World War I era in Germany. The exhibition's curator, Timothy O. Benson along with David Frisby, Reinhold Heller, Anton Kaes, Wolf Prix, and Iain Boyd White present the diverse manifestations of the utopia metaphor in its progression throughout Expressionism from Arcadian to manmade utopias. This work includes a new essay and an interview by Edward Dimenberg with Wolf Prix on the spectacular installation created for the exhibition by the Viennese architectural firm Coop Himmelblau.

Author : Timothy O. Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture, German
ISBN : OCLC:1419335135

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Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy by Timothy O. Benson Pdf

Author : Timothy O. Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 0209973242

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Expressionist Utopias by Timothy O. Benson Pdf

Author : Barbara Drygulski Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1214 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Expressionism
ISBN : UCAL:C3517685

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Expressionist Utopia by Barbara Drygulski Wright Pdf

Author : Christian Weikop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351556453

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New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism by Christian Weikop Pdf

New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism: Bridging History brings together highly-renowned international art historians in a scholarly work that offers the first full-length reassessment in English of the importance of the Br?cke group to German modernism specifically and to international modernism more generally. It challenges, interrogates and updates existing orthodoxies in the field of Br?cke studies by deploying new research combined with innovative interpretative approaches. This is an exciting volume of essays with an interlinking tripartite structure that charts the significance of this pioneering German avant-garde group in relation to various critical themes, namely, 'cultural and material identity', 'collectivity and selfhood', as well as 'defamation and rehabilitation'. The book is unique in the field in that it seeks to excavate specific historical research relating to the activities of the Br?cke as a bohemian yet nonetheless enterprising artists' community, and considers the contributions of the key members in relation to the dynamics of that group rather than simply on an individual basis. It thoroughly explores the historiography of the Br?cke artists' reception throughout the turbulent history of the twentieth century up until the present day.

Author : KimberlyA. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351544726

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The Expressionist Turn in Art History by KimberlyA. Smith Pdf

During the period in which Expressionist artists were active in central Europe, art historians were producing texts which also began to be characterized evocatively as ?expressionist?, yet the notion of an expressionist art history has yet to be fully explored in historiographic studies of the discipline. This anthology offers a cross-section of noteworthy art history texts that have been described as expressionist, along with critical commentaries by an international group of scholars. Written between 1912 and 1933, the primary sources have been selected from the published scholarship of both recognized and less-familiar figures in the field's Germanic tradition: Wilhelm Worringer, Fritz Burger, Ernst Heidrich, Max Dvor? Heinrich W?lfflin, and Carl Einstein. Translated here for the first time, these examples of an expressionist turn in art history, along with their secondary analyses and the book's introduction, offer a productive lens through which to re-examine the practice and theory of art history in the early twentieth century.

Author : Dietrich Scheunemann
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 157113350X

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Expressionist Film by Dietrich Scheunemann Pdf

Beginning with a fundamentally new interpretation of 'Dr. Caligari', and with fresh views of other expressionist classics, this book offers new perspectives on important alternative styles and genres that emerged in films by such eminent directors as Lubitsch, Fritz Lang and E.A. Dupont.

Author : Stephanie D'Alessandro
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0944110940

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German Expressionist Prints by Stephanie D'Alessandro Pdf

The Specks Collection is noted for its high quality, breadth, and profound graphic power. In celebration of the gift to the museum, the collection is presented here for the first time in its entirety.

Author : David Ayers,Benedikt Hjartarson,Tomi Huttunen,Harri Veivo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110434781

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Utopia by David Ayers,Benedikt Hjartarson,Tomi Huttunen,Harri Veivo Pdf

Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present. The fourth volume of the EAM series, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through European modernism and the avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st century. The book’s varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as: · how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity? · how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present? · how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation?

Author : Kathleen G. Chapman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004380998

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Expressionism and Poster Design in Germany 1905-1922 by Kathleen G. Chapman Pdf

An examination of visual and discursive connections between Expressionist art and commercial posters to show the equal importance of the aesthetic, utilitarian, and commercial in German modernism.

Author : Arn Henderson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780806158303

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Bruce Goff by Arn Henderson Pdf

Renowned today as one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904–1982) was only twelve years old when a Tulsa architectural firm took him on as an apprentice. Throughout his career he defied expectations, not only as a designer of innovative buildings but also as a gifted educator and painter. This beautifully illustrated volume, featuring more than 150 photographs, architectural drawings, and color plates, explores the vast multitude of ideas and themes that influenced Goff’s work. Tracing what he calls Goff’s “path of originality,” Arn Henderson begins by describing two of Goff’s earliest and most significant influences: the architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the French composer Claude Debussy. As Henderson explains, Goff embraced from a young age Wright’s ideal of organic expression, where all elements of a building’s design are integrated into a unified whole. Although Goff’s stylistic dependence on Wright eventually waned, the music of Debussy, with its qualities of mystery and “discipline in freedom,” was a perpetual source of inspiration. Henderson also emphasizes Goff’s identification with the American West, particularly Oklahoma, where he developed most of his ideas and created many of his masterful buildings. Goff served as a professor at the University of Oklahoma between 1947 and 1955, becoming the first chair of its School of Architecture. The new studio course he introduced was a pivotal development, ensuring that his ideas were imparted to the next generation of architects. Part biography of a well-known architect, part analysis of Goff’s work, this book is also a finely woven tapestry of information and interpretation that encompasses the ideas and experiences that shaped Goff’s artistic vision over his lifetime. Based on scores of interviews with Goff’s associates and former students, as well as the author’s firsthand study of Goff’s extant buildings, this volume deepens our appreciation of the great architect’s lasting legacy.

Author : Clint Jones,Cameron Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317027584

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The Individual and Utopia by Clint Jones,Cameron Ellis Pdf

Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this may be true, rarely are the individuals that comprise a community given primacy of place as central to a strong communal theory. This volume moves away from the dominant, current macro-level theorising on the subject of identity and its relationship to and with globalising trends, focusing instead on the individual’s relationship with utopia so as to offer new interpretive approaches for engaging with and examining utopian individuality. Interdisciplinary in scope and bringing together work from around the world, The Individual and Utopia enquires after the nature of the utopian as citizen, demonstrating the inherent value of making the individual central to utopian theorizing and highlighting the methodologies necessary for examining the utopian individual. The various approaches employed reveal what it is to be an individual yoked by the idea of citizenship and challenge the ways that we have traditionally been taught to think of the individual as citizen. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social theory, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, architecture, and feminist thought, whose work intersects with political thought, utopian theorizing, or the study of humanity or human nature.

Author : Ashley Bassie
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783103263

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Expressionism by Ashley Bassie Pdf

Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often controversial new movement in early twentieth-century Germany and Austria: Expressionism. This publication introduces these artists and their work. The author, art historian Ashley Bassie, explains how Expressionist art led the way to a new, intense, evocative treatment of psychological, emotional and social themes in the early twentieth century. The book examines the developments of Expressionism and its key works, highlighting the often intensely subjective imagery and the aspirations and conflicts from which it emerged while focusing precisely on the artists of the movement.

Author : Tim Satterthwaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781501341618

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Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal by Tim Satterthwaite Pdf

The new photo-illustrated magazines of the 1920s traded in images of an ideal modernity, promising motorised leisure, scientific progress, and social and sexual emancipation. Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal is a pioneering history of these periodicals, focusing on two of the leading European titles: the German monthly UHU, and the French news weekly VU, taken as representative of the broad class of popular titles launched in the 1920s. The book is the first major study of UHU, and the first scholarly work on VU in English. Modernist Magazines explores, in particular, the striking use of regularity and repetition in photographs of modernity, reading these repetitious images as symbolic of modernist ideals of social order in the aftermath of the First World War. Introducing a novel methodology, pattern theory, the book argues for a critical return to the Gestalt tradition in visual studies. Alongside the UHU and VU case studies, Modernist Magazines offers an essential primer to interwar magazine culture in Europe. Accounts of rival titles are woven into the book's thematic chapters, which trace the evolution of the two magazines' photography and graphic design in the tumultuous years up to 1933.

Author : Maria do Rosário Monteiro,Mário S. Ming Kong,Maria João Pereira Neto
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351966832

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Utopia(s) - Worlds and Frontiers of the Imaginary by Maria do Rosário Monteiro,Mário S. Ming Kong,Maria João Pereira Neto Pdf

The idea of Utopia springs from a natural desire of transformation, of evolution pertaining to humankind and, therefore, one can find expressions of “utopian” desire in every civilization. Having to do explicitly with human condition, Utopia accompanies closely cultural evolution, almost as a symbiotic organism. Maintaining its roots deeply attached to ancient myths, utopian expression followed, and sometimes preceded cultural transformation. Through the next almost five hundred pages (virtually one for each year since Utopia was published) researchers in the fields of Architecture and Urbanism, Arts and Humanities present the results of their studies within the different areas of expertise under the umbrella of Utopia. Past, present, and future come together in one book. They do not offer their readers any golden key. Many questions will remain unanswered, as they should. The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities - UTOPIA(S) WORLDS AND FRONTIERS OF THE IMAGINARY were compiled with the intent to establish a platform for the presentation, interaction and dissemination of researches. It aims also to foster the awareness and discussion on the topics of Harmony and Proportion with a focus on different utopian visions and readings relevant to the arts, sciences and humanities and their importance and benefits for the community at large.