German Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter and Its Legacies

German Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter and Its Legacies
Authors
Dorothy Price
Publisher
ManchesterUP
Tags
art , history , modern (late 19th century to 1945)
ISBN
9781526121622
Date
2020-09-15T20:43:22+00:00
Size
3.07 MB
Lang
en
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This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction. For the first time Blaue Reiter is subjected to a variety of novel inter-disciplinary perspectives, ranging from a philosophical enquiry into its language and visual perception to analyses of its gender dynamics, its reception at different historical junctures throughout the twentieth century and its legacies for post-colonial aesthetic practices. The volume offers a new perspective on familiar aspects of Expressionism and abstraction, taking seriously the inheritance of modernism for the twenty-first century in ways that will help to recalibrate the field of Expressionist studies for future scholarship. Blaue Reiter still matters, the contributors argue, because the legacies of abstraction are still being debated by artists, writers, philosophers and cultural theorists today.