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In a series of incisive and insightful essays, the book offers an expert gaze to the various movements in the history of 20th and 21st century art, from the French Fauves and Cubists, the Italian Futurists, German Expressionists, and the Bauhaus to Neue Sachlichkeit and Surrealism. Other chapters are devoted to artists during the First World War and the period of National Socialism. In later chapters the more recent art of Beuys, Judd, de Kooning, and Polke comes head to head with contemporary works by Pipilotti Rist, Zoe Leonard, Neo Rauch, and Thomas Hirschhorn. With its excellent selection of masterpieces, this guide presents the full spectrum of artistic expression reflected in the Bavarian State Painting Collections' Sammlung Moderne Kunst (Modern Art Collection) which ranks among the very best in the world. Milestones of art have been on show in the collection's galleries at the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich since 2002. Besides the largest suite of works by Max Beckmann in Europe, the collection boasts remarkable paintings by Kandinsky, Kirchner, and Picasso, major works by Bacon, Baselitz, and Warhol, photography by the likes of August Sander to Jeff Wall, as well as pieces by contemporary artists working in painting and media art.
List of contents
Contents The Modern Art Collection - Facets of Its History Beginnings - The Avant-garde(s) after 1900 Expressionism - Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter Fragmentation and Re-Formation - From Cubism to Futurism Apocalypse - Artists and the First World War Abstraction and Construction - The Bauhaus and Its Circle The Golden Twenties? - Neue Sachlichkeit and Neoclassicism Neues Sehen - Photography in the 1920s and 1930s Visions - Surrealism and Magic Realism Propaganda, Conformism, Withdrawal, Criticism, Exclusion, and Exile - The Nazi Period Pain and Hope - After the Second World War 'The Global Language of Abstraction' - Gestures and Constructions The Infinite and the Tangible - The Unbounding of the Image Unease - The Post-War Generation New Documents - The Photography of the 1960s and 1970s Installations - In Space and Time Emotion and Hardness - Painting after 1970 Objectively Subjective - A Paradigm Shift in Photography Close-Up - Video and Media Art Starting Line - Art in the 21st Century Index of Persons Credits
About the author
Dr. Bernhard Maaz ist seit 1986 in Berlin an der Nationalgalerie tätig und betreut dort die Sammlung der Skulptur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen - vor allem zur Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts, aber auch zur Kunst- und Sammlungsgeschichte vom 16. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert.
