Title & Author:

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].

Publication:

Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.

Description:

447 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-430) and index.
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.

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.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0262025221 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262025225 (hc. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Avant Garde Musikgruppe
Association Mitteleuropa
Art, European 20th century Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Europe, Central History 20th century Exhibitions.
Art européen Europe centrale 20e siècle Expositions.
Avant-garde (Art) Europe centrale Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Avantgarde.AusstellungAvant-garde.Avant-garde.Beeldende kunsten.Avant-garde (Aesthetics)Art, European.Avant-garde (Art)Art europnAvant-garde (Aesthetics)Art, European Exhibitions. Exhibitions. History Expositions. Expositions. Histoire Europe, Central Europe centrale Europe centrale 20thcentury20thcentury20esile20esile.
Art, European
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Ausstellung
Avantgarde
Beeldende kunsten.
Avant-garde.
Art, European Europe, Central Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Europe, Central 20th century Exhibitions.
Europe,Central..
Central Europe

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Los Angeles (Calif.) 2002.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History
Catalogues d'exposition.
Los Angeles (Calif., 2002)

Added entries:

Benson, Timothy O., 1950-
Los Angeles County Museum.
Haus der Kunst München.
Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221098
Call No.: N6758 .C45 2002
Status: Available