Stephanie Barron; Sabine Eckmann; Matthew Affron
Exiles + Emigrés: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler
New York, Harry Abrams, 1997. Softcover. Black wraps with French flaps. 432 pp. Profuse color and bw plates. Catalog of an exhibition organized by and held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 23-May 11, 1997; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, June 19-Sept. 7, 1997; and the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Oct. 9, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998. Published to accompany the exhibition held in Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 23 to May 11, 1997, two other dates. Contents as follows: European artists in exile : a reading between the lines / Stephanie Barron -- Considering (and reconsidering) art and exile / Sabine Eckmann -- Scenes from exile in Western Europe : the politics of individual and collective endeavor among German Artists / Keith Holz -- Antifascism or autonomous art? : Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky, John Heartfield, Kurt Schwitters, Oskar Kokoschka / Barbara Copeland Buenger, Keith Holz -- Moral triage or cultural salvage? : the agendas of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee / Elisabeth Kessin Berman -- Constructing a new Jewish identity : Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz / Matthew Affron -- On the passage of a few persons through a rather brief period of time / Romy Golan -- Surrealism in exile : responses to the European destruction of humanism : Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, André Masson, Yves Tanguy, Matta Echaurren / Sabine Eckmann -- New York's impact on modernity / Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian / Matthew Affron -- Experiencing the New World : Andreas Feininger, André Kertész / Deborah Irmas -- Bauhaus and exile : Bauhaus architects and designers between the old world and the new / Peter Hahn -- The Bauhaus architects and the rise of modernism in the United States / Franz Schulze -- Changing the agenda : from German Bauhaus modernism to U.S. internationalism : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer / Kathleen James -- Purism and pragmatism : Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy / Sheri Bernstein -- Banned German art : reception and institutional support of modern German art in the United States, 1933-45 / Vivian Endicott Barnett -- The loss of homeland and cultural identity / George Grosz, Lyonel Feininger / Sabine Eckmann -- Transfer and transformation : the German period in American art history / Karen Michels -- Art history and exile : Richard Krautheimer and Erwin Panofsky / Kevin Parker -- The German migration : is there a figure in the carpet? / Martin Jay -- Paradise : the Southern California idyll of Hitler's cultural exiles / Lawrence Weschler -- Reflections on exile in France and the United States / Stephan Lackner -- The great migration / Hans Magnus Enzensberger. VG+ .

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Keywords: European Art ; Wwii and European Art ; ; Museum Exhibitions - European Art