| Description |
xii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Defining musical expressionism : Schoenberg and others / Stephen Hinton -- The body and the dance : Kirchner's Swiss work as expressionism / Colin Rhodes -- Expressionism and dance : a literary perspective / Manfred Kuxdorf -- The religious element in expressionist theatre / Raymond Furness -- Deciphering Wassily Kandinsky's Violet : activist expressionism and the Russian Slavonic milieu / Shulamith Behr -- Lothar Schreyer's theatre works and the use of masks / Brian Keith-Smith -- Culture and anarchy in expressionist drama / Rhys Williams |
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Foreword : Expressionism : bonfire and jellyfish / John Willett -- Introduction : Expressionism reassessed / Shulamith Behr, David Fanning and Douglas Jarman -- The origins of expressionism and the notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk / Peter Vergo -- Concepts of expressionism in Scandinavia / Marit Werenskiold -- Expressionism in exile in Great Britain / J.M. Ritchie -- Expressionism : a health warning / David Elliott -- 'The ascent to nature' : some metaphors of 'nature' in early expressionist art / Gill Perry -- Expressionist sculpture c. 1910-30 and the significance of its dual architectural/ideological frame / Erich Ranfft -- Expressionist architecture today / Dennis Sharp -- Expressionism and film : the testament of Dr Caligari / Werner Sudendorf -- Musical expressionism : the search for autonomy / Christopher Hailey -- "Wilde Musik" : composers, critics and expressionism / Peter Franklin |
| Analysis |
Expressionism |
| Notes |
Index: p. [221]-232 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-218) and index |
| Subject |
Art, Modern -- 20th century.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
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Expressionism (Art)
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| Author |
Behr, Shulamith.
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Fanning, David.
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Jarman, Douglas.
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| LC no. |
93002709 |
| ISBN |
071903843X (cloth) |
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0719038448 (paper) |
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