Description |
432 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 31 cm. |
Note |
Catalog of an exhibition organized by and held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 23-May 11, 1997; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, June 19-Sept. 7, 1997; and the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Oct. 9, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-413) and index. |
Contents |
European artists in exile : a reading between the lines / Stephanie Barron -- Considering (and reconsidering) art and exile / Sabine Eckmann -- Scenes from exile in Western Europe : the politics of individual and collective endeavor among German Artists / Keith Holz -- Antifascism or autonomous art? : Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky, John Heartfield, Kurt Schwitters, Oskar Kokoschka / Barbara Copeland Buenger, Keith Holz -- Moral triage or cultural salvage? : the agendas of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee / Elisabeth Kessin Berman -- Constructing a new Jewish identity : Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz / Matthew Affron -- On the passage of a few persons through a rather brief period of time / Romy Golan -- Surrealism in exile : responses to the European destruction of humanism : Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, André Masson, Yves Tanguy, Matta Echaurren / Sabine Eckmann -- New York's impact on modernity / Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian / Matthew Affron -- Experiencing the New World : Andreas Feininger, André Kertész / Deborah Irmas -- Bauhaus and exile : Bauhaus architects and designers between the old world and the new / Peter Hahn -- The Bauhaus architects and the rise of modernism in the United States / Franz Schulze -- Changing the agenda : from German Bauhaus modernism to U.S. internationalism : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer / Kathleen James -- Purism and pragmatism : Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy / Sheri Bernstein -- Banned German art : reception and institutional support of modern German art in the United States, 1933-45 / Vivian Endicott Barnett -- The loss of homeland and cultural identity / George Grosz, Lyonel Feininger / Sabine Eckmann -- Transfer and transformation : the German period in American art history / Karen Michels -- Art history and exile : Richard Krautheimer and Erwin Panofsky / Kevin Parker -- The German migration : is there a figure in the carpet? / Martin Jay -- Paradise : the Southern California idyll of Hitler's cultural exiles / Lawrence Weschler -- Reflections on exile in France and the United States / Stephan Lackner -- The great migration / Hans Magnus Enzensberger. |
Subject |
Expatriate artists -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Art, European -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Political refugees -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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Exiles -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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Genre or Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Added Author |
Barron, Stephanie, 1950-
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Eckmann, Sabine (Sabine M.)
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Affron, Matthew, 1963-
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
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Neue Nationalgalerie (Germany)
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Added Title |
Exiles and emigrés |
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Flight of European artists from Hitler |
ISBN |
0810932717 (cloth) |
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087587178X (paper) |
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