The Berlin Secession
Author : Peter Paret
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
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ISBN : 9780674182349
Author : Peter Paret
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
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ISBN : 9780674182349
Author : Peter Paret
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Peter Paret
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,46 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Art
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Author : Brent Tarter
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0813937108
The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and one that has typically been told on a grand scale. In Daydreams and Nightmares, however, historian Brent Tarter shares the story of one Virginia family who found themselves in the middle of the secession debate and saw their world torn apart as the states chose sides and went to war. George Berlin was elected to serve as a delegate to the Virginia Convention of 1861 as an opponent of secession, but he ultimately changed his vote. Later, when defending his decision in a speech in his hometown of Buckhannon, Upshur County, he had to flee for his safety as Union soldiers arrived. Berlin and his wife, Susan Holt Berlin, were separated for extended periods--both during the convention and, later, during the early years of the Civil War. The letters they exchanged tell a harrowing story of uncertainty and bring to life for the modern reader an extended family that encompassed both Confederate and Union sympathizers. This is in part a love story. It is also a story about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. Although unique in its vividly evoked details, the Berlins’ story is representative of the drama endured by millions of Americans. Composed during the nightmare of civil war, the Berlins’ remarkably articulate letters express the dreams of reunion and a secure future felt throughout the entire, severed nation. In this intimate, evocative, and often heartbreaking family story, we see up close the personal costs of our larger national history. A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War
Author : Victoria Charles
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 1783103949
A symbol of modernity, the Viennese Secession was defined by the rebellion of twenty artists who were against the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus' oppressive influence over the city, the epoch, and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire. Influenced by Art Nouveau, this movement (created in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, and Josef Hoffmann) was not an anonymous artistic revolution. Defining itself as a “total art”, without any political or commercial constraint, the Viennese Secession represented the ideological turmoil that affected craftsmen, architects, graphic artists, and designers from this period. Turning away from an established art and immersing themselves in organic, voluptuous, and decorative shapes, these artists opened themselves to an evocative, erotic aesthetic that blatantly offended the bourgeoisie of the time. Painting, sculpture, and architecture are addressed by the authors and highlight the diversity and richness of a movement whose motto proclaimed “for each time its art, for each art its liberty” – a declaration to the innovation and originality of this revolutionary art movement.
Author : Emily D. Bilski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520222410
Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918 vividly documents the diverse ways that Jewish artists, intellectuals, and cultural impresarios participated in this burst of creativity and promoted the emergence of modernism in Berlin and on the international scene."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Thomas Köhler
Publisher : Wienand Verlag
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Modernism (Art)
ISBN : 9783868326628
Ferdinand Hodler's expressive figure paintings, mountain landscapes and portraits are icons of modernism. Even during his lifetime, the work of the Swiss painter (1853-1918), who helped shape Symbolism, attracted great international attention. Contemporaries saw in Hodler above all the human actor, "who knows how to shape the soul through the body", said the artist Paul Klee in 1911. What is hardly known today: Hodler's path to fame also led via Berlin. Alongside Paris, Vienna and Munich, the imperial capital had developed into one of the most important European art metropolises at the beginning of the 20th century. These cities offered Hodler the opportunity to make his work known beyond the Swiss borders. With around 50 paintings by Hodler and works by Lovis Corinth and Hans Thoma, among others, who exhibited with Hodler in Berlin, his success story on the Spree is told for the first time.
Author : St. Louis Art Museum
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN :
The Secession years -- Arter World War I -- Paris calls -- Exile -- St. Louis -- St. Louis to New York
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Expressionism (Art)
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Author : Robert Jensen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691241953
In this fundamental rethinking of the rise of modernism from its beginnings in the Impressionist movement, Robert Jensen reveals that market discourses were pervasive in the ideological defense of modernism from its very inception and that the avant-garde actually thrived on the commercial appeal of anti-commercialism at the turn of the century. The commercial success of modernism, he argues, depended greatly on possession of historical legitimacy. The very development of modern art was inseparable from the commercialism many of its proponents sought to transcend. Here Jensen explores the economic, aesthetic, institutional, and ideological factors that led to its dominance in the international art world by the early 1900s. He emphasizes the role of the emerging dealer/gallery market and of modernist art historiographies in evaluating modern art and legitimizing it through the formation of a canon of modernist masters. In describing the canon-building of modern dealerships, Jensen considers the new "ideological dealer" and explores the commercial construction of artistic identity through such rhetorical concepts as temperament and "independent art" and through such institutional structures as the retrospective. His inquiries into the fate of the juste milieu, a group of dissidents who saw themselves as "true heirs" of Impressionism, and his look at a new form of art history emerging in Germany further expose a linear, dealer- oriented history of modernist art constructed by or through the modernists themselves.