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Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930

Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930

Nadas, Peter
Benson, Timothy O.

Hardcover

ArchitectsEuropean ArtGeneral Photography

Publisher Price: $65.95

ISBN10: 0262025221
ISBN13: 9780262025225
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Mar 1 2002
Pages: 448
Weight: 4.14
Height: 1.33 Width: 8.66 Depth: 10.18
Language: English
An illustrated study of the early twentieth-century transformation from Expressionism to Constructivism and beyond in the Central European arts.

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.

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