Art in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Like its highly successful companion volumes, Art in Theory (1815-1900) and Art in Theory (1900-1990), its' primary aim is to provide students and teachers with the documentary material for informed and up-to-date study. Its' 240 texts, clear principles of organization and considerable editorial content o...

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Nach einer längeren Malpause zugunsten der Förderung ihres Lebensgefährten Alexej Jawlensky kehrte Werefkin 1906 zu ihrer eigenen Kunst zurück und schuf in neuer, expressiver Weise faszinierende Werke. Die aus einer russischen Adelsfamilie stammende Künstlerin war maßgebliche Wegbereiterin und Mitbegründerin der »Neuen Künstlervereinigung München«, aus der sich der Kreis des »Blauen Reiters« entwickelte. Neben den frühen Arbeiten der Künstlerin aus Russland und den express...

Frida Kahlo ist mit ihrem ausdrucksstarken Werk zu einer Ikone der Kunst geworden. Ihre Bilder spiegeln nicht nur die Sicht auf sich selbst, auf ihre Ängste, Krankheitsbiografie, Leidenschaft und Lebenslust wider, sondern thematisieren auch gesellschaftliche Tabuthemen. Als Vorreiterin der feministischen Bewegung gilt die mexikanische Malerin Frauen auf der ganzen Welt als Identifikationsfigur. »Man hielt mich für eine Surrealistin. Das ist falsch. Ich malte niemals Träume. Was ich abbild...

Neben Albrecht Dürer gelten Hans Holbein d. Ä. und Hans Burgkmair als Wegbereiter der Renaissancemalerei im Norden. Wichtiges Zentrum dieser künstlerischen Blütezeit war die wohlhabende Reichs- und Handelsstadt Augsburg. Anhand hochkarätiger Werke bietet der Band einen umfassenden Einblick in den epochalen Umbruch vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit.Augsburg wurde früh von der humanistischen Kultur Italiens beeinflusst. Aufgrund der Kunstsinnigkeit international agierender Handelshäuser, wie d...

This generously illustrated and comprehensive book focuses on a decisive decade in Max Beckmann's career as one of the leading figurative painters of the twentieth century. This publication will provide insight into a critical period in the artist's development and the accomplishments that earned him such high esteem.

Max Beckmann's brief but profoundly jarring service as a medical orderly during World War I led to a nervous breakdown. He assimilated his experiences and incorporate...

This volume aims to re-examine and reassess the importance of Impressionist collectors in the political, social and economic contexts of their times through the contributions of 16 international specialists.

Auteur Nathalie Zonnenberg analyseert de problematiek rondom het tentoonstellen van ideekunst via drie case studies, en suggereert een alternatieve omgang met 'onbestaanbare' kunstwerken.

Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization and Documentation focuses on the curatorial practice of exhibiting conceptual art. The fact that conceptual works are not object-based, creates challenges in exhibiting or re-exhibiting them. This book offers various perspectives on how to...

It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo’s first prime minister, who was killed in 1961, has lived in the realm of the cultural imaginary and occupied an afterlife in the arts. After all, his project remained unfinished and his corpse unburied. The figure of Lumumba has been imagined through painting, photography, cinema, poetry, literature, theatre, music, sculpture, fashion, cartoons and stamps, and also through historiography and in p...

Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have long remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, artistic practice and urban space, this volume brings together contributions by international researchers committed to revising the historiography of modern art. It pays particular attention to metropolitan areas that were settled by migrant artists in the first half o...