Author: Lloyd, Jill
Title: German Expressionism: Primitivism and Modernity
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1991. Hardcover. A black fabric casebound book. There is a dust jacket with a black spine and white text. Pages: (5), vi-x, (2), 3-267. Illustrated with both black-and-white and color images. Contents are as follows: I. Art as life/life as art. Turning away from history: the Jugendstil renewal ; The expressionists' redefinition of Jugendstil ; The Brücke studios: a testing ground for primitivism ; Primitivism in public places ; Expressionist wood carving: ideals of authenticity. -- II. Primitivism versus modernity: the expressionist dilemma. Urban exoticism in the cabaret and circus ; The Brücke bathers: back to nature ; The lure of the metropolis ; Emil Nolde and the paradox of primitivism. -- III. The politics of primitivism. A South Seas odyssey: Max Pechstein's visionary ideals ; Emil Nolde's critique of colonialism. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on the dust jacket at the base of the spine. Stamp on half-title page. Stamp on last page. Due date card on back pasted end page. Stamps on top and bottom text blocks.

Keywords: European Art ; German Expressionism ; ; General Art - European


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