Stephanie Barron (2)Critiques

"The rise of the Nazis in the 1930s caused an unprecedented upheaval in German art circles, uprooting hundreds of artists from their homeland. As German armies invaded neighboring countries, eventually occupying Paris, the capital of the Western art world, more artists were displaced, making the dislocations of exile and emigration felt throughout the European artistic community.Stephanie Barron of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has gathered eighteen prominent American and European scholars and writers to explore the meaning and consequences of this displacement, concentrating especially on the experiences of the exiles abroad and the receptions they encountered in their host countries. The focus is on twenty-three well-known painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects, including Josef Albers, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Walter Gropius, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Wassily Kandinsky, André Kertész, Oskar Kokoschka, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, André Masson, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The book includes generous selections that these artists created in exile. Hundreds of documentary photographs - powerfully evoking isolation, bitterness, and uncertainty as well as rejuvenation, assimilation, and professional success - add to an understanding of the exile experience." Images are color & b/w photographic reproductions. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Exiles & Emigrés: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler, which was organized by LACMA.

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Catalog for the first major museum survey devoted exclusively to the Russian Avant-Garde. Describes the goals and effervescence of Russian Modernism and its waning in the late 1920's when the avant-garde impulse was no longer tolerated by the Soviet government. 288p. Bibliography. Checklist for exhibition. Artists range from Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo and Vassilii Kandinsky to Eli Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich and Alexandr Rodchenko. Several essays. Includes photographs and many b/w reproductions of paintings.

9.75 x 12.25 hardcover book with 424 pages and 750 illustrations, including 164 in color and several fold-out illustrations. Includes bibliography, index, exhibition ephemera, and chronology. Oversized companion volume to the 1991 exhibition reconstructed by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in an attempt to recreate the 1937 Munich exhibition Entartete Kunst. This volume contains more than 150 masterworks from the original show, introductory essay and histories of the original show, discussion of museum resistance to the Nazi campaign, seizure and sale of original artwork, National Socialist views on modern art, etc. With biographical information on each artist, register of names and illustrations, facsimile of guide to 1937 exhibition, a room-by-room photographic survey of displays.

Contains biographical information on each artist, a register of names and institutions, an illustrated chronology, extensive documentation on the fate of the works in the 1937 exhibition and those that were sold at auction in Lucerne in 1939, and a facsimile of the rare guide to the 1937 exhibition, with a new English translation, including a room-by-room photographic survey.

Includes work by Max Beckmann, Ernst Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Emil Nolde, Lyonel Feininger, and many others.

By the fall of 1937, the Nazis had removed 16,000 Avant-Garde works from German museums. 650 of these appeared in a touring 4-year exhibition called Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art). Artists like Beckmann, Chagall, Dix, Grosz, Kandinsky, Klee, Kokoscha, Lahmbruck and founders of German Expressionism Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Emil Nolde, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff were included. 150 surviving masterworks were included in a 1991 LACMA expedition from which this catalogue is derived. Essays in the book describe the original exhibition and its cultural and historical context during the Nazi era. A biography of Avant-Garde artists persecuted by the Nazis and the fate of works removed from German museums is detailed.

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60 Jahre nach Gründung der Bundesrepublik wie der DDR, zwanzig Jahre nach dem Fall der Mauer, bietet die Ausstellung „Kunst und Kalter Krieg“ des Museums in Los Angeles einen Überblick zur Kunst während der deutschen Teilung aus internationaler Sicht und umfaßt 300 Gemälde, Skulpturen, Fotografien, Videos, Installationen und Bücher von 120 Künstlern. Die Ausstellung war im letzten Jahre im Germanischen Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg und im Deutschen Historischen Museum in Berlin zu sehen.

A powerful collection of essays and photographs documenting the Degenerate Art Exhibit (entartete kunst).