Author: von Holst, Christian (and) Karin von Maur
Title: Franz Marc: Horses
Description: Ostfildern-Ruit, Hatje Cantz, 2000. Hardcover. A bright green cloth casebound book. There is a color-illustrated dust jacket with the title in blue and in orange down a green spine. There is a mylar jacket. The free and pasted end pages are dark blue. Pages: (4), 10-283, (1). Profusely illustrated with a majority color images. "The German painter Franz Marc pursued the representation of the horse - a theme central to the fine arts - throughout his life. Co-founder, with Wassily Kandinsky, of the almanac Der Blaue Reiter [The Blue Rider], Marc was a champion of innovation in art. In his own work he achieved symbolic, visionary images now recognized as among the icons of early Modernism." Contents are as follows: Franz Marc 1880-1916 / Andreas K. Vetter -- " .. the hoofbeat of my horses" / Christian von Holst -- " .. from looking at the world to looking through the world" : Franz Marc and Der blaue Reiter in the struggle for modernism / Karin von Maur -- In the garden of the animals : environment and landscape in the work of Franz Marc / Andreas K. Vetter -- A horse without a rider? Franz Marc, Reinhard Piper, and the horse in art / Andreas Schalhorn -- The horse as a living creature : Franz Marc's horses in the eyes of a behavioral scientist / Klaus Zeeb. Exlibrary book. Stamp on half-title page; stamp on last page; due date card on free end page; sticker on dust jacket at the base of the spine; stamp on top and bottom text blocks.

Keywords: European Artists ; Marc, Franz ; ;


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