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Exiles + emigrés : the flight of European artists from Hitler / Stephanie Barron with Sabine Eckmann ; contributions by Matthew Affron ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles, Calif. : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New York : H.N. Abrams, c1997.Description: 432 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 0810932717 (cloth)
Other title:
  • Exiles and emigrés
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N6512 .E887 1997
Contents:
European artists in exile : a reading between the lines / Stephanie Barron -- Considering (and reconsidering) art and exile / Sabine Exckmann -- 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.
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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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-413) and index.

European artists in exile : a reading between the lines / Stephanie Barron -- Considering (and reconsidering) art and exile / Sabine Exckmann -- 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.

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