Chaos & classicism art in France, Italy, and Germany 1918-1936 Kenneth E. Silver
Publication details: New York, N.Y. Guggenheim Museum 2010 Description: 189 p. ill. (some col.), ports. 28 cmISBN: 9780892074051 (pbk.); 0892074043 (hbk.); 9780892074044 (hbk.)Other title: Art in France, Italy, and Germany 1918-1936 | Chaos and classicismSubject(s): Art, Italian -- Exhibitions -- 20th century | Art, German -- Exhibitions -- 20th century | Art, French -- Exhibitions -- 20th centuryLOC classification: N 5020 .N49 | G84 2010Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Vitali Hakko Kreatif Endüstriler Kütüphanesi | N 5020 .N49 G84 2010 | Not for loan | 007127 |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Oct. 1, 2010 - January 9, 2011 and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Feb. 21 - May 15, 2011
Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-171) and index
A more durable self / Kenneth E. Silver -- New wine in old bottles: French art following World War I / James D. Herbert -- Bodies from the crypt and other tales of Italian sculpture between the world wars / Emily Braun -- Germany's classical turn from the great disorder to a kingdom of the dead / Jeanne Anne Nugent
This catalogue accompanies Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 19181936, the first exhibition in the United States to explore the classicizing aesthetic that followed the immense destruction ofWorldWar I. It examines the interwar period in its key artistic manifestations: the poetic dream of antiquity in the Parisian avant-garde of Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso; the politicized revival of the Roman Empire under Benito Mussolini by artists such as Giorgio de Chirico and Mario Sironi; and the functionalist utopianism at the Bauhaus as well as, chillingly, the pseudobiological classicism, or Aryanism, of nascent Nazi society. This presentation encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film, fashion and the decorative arts. Fully illustrated and with essays by Emily Braun, James D. Herbert, Jeanne Anne Nugent and Kenneth E. Silver, this book is the first to examine classicism between the wars in Europe, and as such will be an original addition to the art historical canon