Avant-Garde Art 1914-1939.

Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Inhalt: THE CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION. 1914-1918 . Matisse, the conflict between two realities. Picasso, the return to illusionism . Chirico, the mysteries of the subject. New York, the capital of the 20th century. Stieglitz and the advent of pure photography . Duchamp and Picabia, the abandonment of painting . The fascination of machinery . Man Ray, the spirit of free invention. Zurich Dada . The Russian avant-garde . Chagall and Kandinsky. The suprematism of Malevich, "wrenching the world from the hands of nature" . Real materials in real space . "Another order assigned to the laws of nature" . Affirming the autonomy of painting . Mondrian and the creation of De Stijl . Consequences of the war and the Russian Revolution . THE MOMENTUM OF CHANGE 1919-1924: Matisse and Bonnard, a new lyrical unity Picasso, the return to the subject . A "purely Italian art". L'Esprit Nouveau: art and science join hands The rule and emotion . Picasso: "To find is the thing". Leger, the alphabet of the modern world From painting to film . Berlin, hotbed of revolution . Berlin Dada and photomontage. Cologne Dada, another dimension of collage Paris Dada: "Beyond painting". Hanover Dada, the invention of Merz . . The assemblage. New forms of photography . The death of painting . Art changes purpose. "Our streets are brushes". New ways of sculpture. The international of geometric abstraction . The picture breaks out of the frame The Bauhaus: art and technics become one ART FOR LIFE'S SAKE 1925-1929. Paris, the rendezvous of Art Deco . . . . The 1925 style . Repudiating "decorative art". Functional art vs. spectacular art Matisse, the truth of his own emotion . . The changing face of realism. The New Objectivity. Picasso and Surrealism. Surrealism and painting. Automatic writing. Sand pictures and frottage. The assemblage. The Bauhaus in Dessau. The triumph of geometric abstraction The invention of the environment Functional architecture. The social background. The condemnation of Utopia . . . . The theatre as a synthesis of the arts Liberating sculpture from the mass Photography A new art of propaganda . Photographic realism. Photography as art. Art as photography The Second Surrealist Manifesto . . . . The question of representation. The objectivized form of desire. THE TIME OF TRIAL 1930-1936. Matisse discovers colour-form . From "Cercle et Carre" to "Abstraction-Crea The break-up of the Bauhaus. When the State asserts its power and author The necessity for another realism . . . . The affirmation of biomorphic forms . . . Sculpture in metal. Art and politics. DREAMS AND DECEITS 1937-1939 . .no more ivory towers Paris 1937, the World's Fair Pavilion of the Spanish Republic Freedom vs. the order of the law Surrealism invents the environment The return of the "subject" . . . The necessity of art ISBN 9780333314739