Hans Richter : activism, modernism, and the avant-garde

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Hans Richter : activism, modernism, and the avant-garde

edited by Stephen C. Foster

MIT Press, c1998

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"Published in collaboration with the University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-314) and index

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ISBN 9780262061964

内容説明

Few artists spanned the movements of early-20th-century art as completely as did Hans Richter. Richter was a significant force in the developments of expressionsim, Dada, de Stijl, constructivism, and Surrealism, and the creator, with Viking Eggeling, of the abstract cinema. Along with Theo van Doesburg, Lazlo Moholy Nagy, El Lissitsky, and a few others, he is one of the artists crucial to an understanding of the role of the arts in the reconstruction era following World War I. After his emigration to the United States in 1941, he contributed enormously to modernism in the United States and served as an important conduit between the American and European art communities. Most American scholars have focused on Richter's film work and have favoured a strictly formalist approach that separates art and politics. The contributors to this development of the early-20th-century avant-garde and his political activsm. When Richter's work, particularly that of his earlier, European career, is viewed in its historical and political context, he emerges as an artist committed to the power of art to change the fabric of social, political and cultural affairs. The essays in this book, which accompanies a 1998 Richter retrospective held in Valencia, Spain, and at the University of Iowa Art Museum, are organized roughly around the expressionist and Dada years, Richter's short tenure in Munich's postwar revolutionary Second Council Republic, his central involvement in international constructivsm and the development of the abstract cinema, and the politicization of film that arose from his anti-Nazi activities of the late '20s and '30s.

目次

  • Hans Richter - prophet of modernism, Stephen C. Foster
  • abstraction, autonomy and contradiction in the politicization of the art of Hans Richter, Timothy O. Benson
  • Hans Richter, Munich Dada and the Munich Republic of Workers' Councils, Justin Hoffmann
  • Hans Richter - contructivist filmmaker, Justin Hoffmann
  • Hans Richter and the constructivist international, Bernd Finkeldey
  • Richter's films and the role of the radical artist 1927-1941, Marion van Hofacker
  • Hans Richter in America - traditional avant-garde values/shifting sociopolitical realities, Estera Milman. Appendix: demonstration of the "Universal Language", Hans Richter.
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: [pbk.] ISBN 9780262561297

内容説明

New critical perspectives on Hans Richter, the artist and political activist who played a major role in the shaping of the twentieth-century avant-garde. Few artists spanned the movements of early twentieth-century art as completely as did Hans Richter. Richter was a major force in the developments of expressionism, Dada, De Stijl, constructivism, and Surrealism, and the creator, with Viking Eggeling, of the abstract cinema. Along with Theo van Doesburg, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, and a few others, he is one of the artists crucial to an understanding of the role of the arts in the reconstruction era following World War I. Most American scholars have focused on Richter's film work and have favored a strictly formalist approach that separates art and politics. The contributors to this book rewrite Richter's history to include his pivotal role in the development of the early twentieth-century avant-garde and his political activism. When Richter's work, particularly that of his earlier, European career, is viewed in its historical and political context, he emerges as an artist committed to the power of art to change the fabric of social, political, and cultural affairs.

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