McDonnell, Patricia
Painting Berlin Stories

Marsden Hartley, Oscar Bluemner, and the First American Avant-Garde in Expressionist Berlin.

In the early twentieth century while French achievement dominated modern painting, important American painters such as Marsden Hartley were working in Berlin. Their disillusionment with French innovation and subsequent embrace of German expressionism brought the premises of American early modernism into sharp focus. This volume examines the philosophical goals and cultural context of these American painters who discovered they shared a common language of ideas with their contemporaries in expressionist Berlin. XI,190 Seiten mit Abb., gebunden (American University Studies. Series XX: Fine Arts; vol. 30/Peter Lang Verlag 2003) Mängelexemplar/near mint