Women Artists in Expressionism (eBook)

From Empire to Emancipation

Shulamith Behr (Autor)

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2022
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24096-1 (ISBN)

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A beautifully illustrated examination of the women artists whose inspired search for artistic integrity and equality influenced Expressionist avant-garde cultureWomen Artists in Expressionism explores how women negotiated the competitive world of modern art during the late Wilhelmine and early Weimar periods in Germany. Their stories challenge predominantly male-oriented narratives of Expressionism and shed light on the divergent artistic responses of women to the dramatic events of the early twentieth century.Shulamith Behr shows how the posthumous critical reception of Paula Modersohn-Becker cast her as a prime agent of the feminization of the movement, and how Kathe Kollwitz used printmaking as a vehicle for technical innovation and sociopolitical commentary. She looks at the dynamic relationship between Marianne Werefkin and Gabriele Munter, whose different paths in life led them to the Blaue Reiter, a group of Expressionist artists that included Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Behr examines Nell Walden's role as an influential art dealer, collector, and artist, who promoted women Expressionists during the First World War, and discusses how Dutch artist Jacoba van Heemskerck's spiritual abstraction earned her the status of an honorary German Expressionist. She demonstrates how figures such as Rosa Schapire and Johanna Ey contributed to the development of the movement as spectators, critics, and collectors of male avant-gardism.Richly illustrated, Women Artists in Expressionism is a women-centered history that reveals the importance of emancipative ideals to the shaping of modernity and the avant-garde.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 170 color + 42 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: aesthetic theory • Anarchism • Applied Arts • ART • Art criticism • art dealer • art exhibition • authoritarianism • avant-garde • Ayn Rand • Ballet company • Capitalism • Career • Color theory • communist state • Consideration • contemporary Art • counter-revolutionary • curator • Degenerate Art • Der Blaue Reiter • Der Sturm • Domestic violence • Eritrea • eroticism • Essay • ethnic conflict • Explanation • expressionism • female • femininity • Feminism • Feminist Art • Feminist Movement • feminist theory • figurative art • Fine Art • Frelimo • Gender identity • Geopolitics • gertrude himmelfarb • Gesamtkunstwerk • Helena Blavatsky • Herbert Spencer • Housewife • Iconography • Ideology • Impressionism • Individualist feminism • Jewish Women's Archive • Judith Butler • Käthe Kollwitz • Lecture • Libertarianism • liberty fund • Maternalism • modern art • Modernity • mother • Mural • Murray Rothbard • Nancy Fraser • Nicaragua • oil painting • painting • Persecution • Philosopher • Poetry • Political Philosophy • private collection • Prostitution • Psychoanalysis • Publication • Public sphere • Rachel Maddow • Radicalism (historical) • Rainer Maria Rilke • Regime • Rosa Schapire • Routledge • Sally Hemings • Sandinista National Liberation Front • Slave Rebellion • Social Darwinism • Stalinism • Suffragette • Surrealism • The Rachel Maddow Show • Thought • Tirana • visual arts • Woman with a Hat • Women artists • Women's club (United States) • Women's Social and Political Union • women's suffrage • woodcut • work of art • Worpswede • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24096-5 / 0691240965
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24096-1 / 9780691240961