Format:
xii, 410 Seiten :
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Illustrationen ;
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27 cm.
ISBN:
978-0-226-46413-8
Content:
"This book collects fourteen essays by the woefully understudied Carl Einstein, translated here from the German. Einstein was a major critic in the early twentieth century. He was a large presence in Paris when it was the crucible of the modernist avant-garde. He was one of the earliest thinkers to take Cubism seriously. He was an architect of formalism and perhaps the first critic to produce a substantial text on African art and its relationship to modernism that rejected Sub-Saharan African cultures as "primitive." And, his views on repetition and mechanical reproduction are in direct opposition to those of Walter Benjamin. Charles Haxthausen identified and translated these fourteen essential texts and has provided critical introductions to each one as well as a longer introduction to Einstein's life, work, and contribution to the intellectual culture of the 20th century"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Notes on a recent French painting (1912) -- Totality (1914/16) -- Negro sculpture (1915) -- On primitive art (1919) -- African sculpture (1921) -- Draft of a letter to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1923) -- Cubism (1926) -- The Berlin Museum for Ethnology (1926) -- André Masson: ethnological study (1929) -- Pablo Picasso (1931) -- The romantic generation (1931) -- The blaue reiter / Paul Klee (1931) -- Two chapters from Georges Braque (1934) -- Excerpts from The fabrication of fictions (1935)
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Aus dem Deutschen übersetzt
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-226-46427-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Kunstkritik
Author information:
Haxthausen, Charles Werner 1941-
Author information:
Einstein, Carl 1885-1940
