National Gallery of Victoria Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

This insightful volume focuses on the full array of artists and movements of the German avant-garde. The years between the birth of the Weimar Republic and Hitler's rise to power were marked by explosive creative output. This volume surveys every major movement of Germany's modernist period. Focusing on the work and interactions of several important artists. Starting with the Expressionists' emotionally fraught reaction to the country's march to war, the book then follows the nihilist movement as it recorded-and attempted to make sense of-the horrors of war. The emergence of Dadaism, the utopian vision of the Bauhaus School, and the practical ideologies of the New Objectivity movement are also given close consideration. Stunning reproductions of more than 200 works reflect the fascinating and complex ways artists responded to the forces of modernity with passion, anger, dark humor, and despair. Informative essays explore the historical events that shaped those artistic innovations as well as the often-tense relationship between art and politics during this critical time in the history of the Western World. The result is a wide-ranging exploration of one of the most dynamic and influential periods of artistic output.

DDie wichtigsten Werke des 19. Jahrhunderts und der klassischen Moderne aus dem Bestand des Städel Museums sind im vorliegenden Ausstellungsband zusammengefasst. Anlass ist eine Wanderausstellung, die einen umfassenden Überblick über die Entwicklung der Kunst dieser Zeit bietet. Das Spektrum der Arbeiten des 19. Jahrhunderts reicht von Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbeins „Goethe in der Campagna“ über Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corots und Gustave Courbets Landschaftsdarstellungen bis hin zu dem in seiner Qualität außergewöhnlichen Ensemble impressionistischer und symbolistischer Gemälde von Vertretern wie Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet und Auguste Renoir sowie Gustave Moreau, Franz von Stuck und Odilon Redon. Zu den Höhepunkten im 20. Jahrhundert zählen Franz Marcs „Liegender Hund im Schnee“, Pablo Picassos „Fernande Olivier“ sowie die expressionistischen Gemälde der Brücke-Künstler. Eindrucksvoll vertreten sind außerdem die Künstlergruppe des Blaue Reiters oder das Bauhaus mit Lyonel Feininger und mehrere Werke von Paul Klee. Den Abschluss bildet ein Konvolut von Arbeiten Max Beckmanns.

One of the most interesting art movements of modern times began when art teacher Geoffrey Bardon, working in the Papunya settlement 250 miles from Alice Springs in the Western desert of Australia, asked a group of children to paint their school house with the curious design motifs he had noticed. The youngsters asked their elders to do it. From those first five rudimentary school murals, Bardon supplied the Aboriginals with paints, brushes and canvases, spawning the creation of art that has attracted buyers around the world. The idea spread like wild yams in the bush. At first, only men were the painters of the sacred images being transferred from body and rock to two-dimensional surfaces. Today, men and women Aboriginal artists both contribute to this outpouring. This book covers the developments in each settlement as the world's oldest, continuous art evolved into an art that is comfortable on gallery walls everywhere because of its patterns and bold colors. The visuals, arcs, concentric circles, parallel lines point to eternal ideas in the Aboriginal culture, ideograms that bear the weight of 50,000 years and provide us with a new kind of seeing, writes Judith Ryan. (National Gallery of Victoria)