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Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit / edited by Jill Lloyd and Michael Peppiatt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schad, Christian, 1894-1982.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schad, Christian, 1894-1982--Exhibitions.
- Schad, Christian.
- Schad, Christian, 1894-1982.
- Neue Sachlichkeit (Art)--Exhibitions.
- Neue Sachlichkeit (Art).
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 259 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton : Neue Galerie New York, [2003]
- Summary:
- Christian Schad (1894-1982) was a leading figure of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement of the 1920s. His sharp-focused, often mysteriously erotic portraits epitomize the decadent glamour of the Weimar era. Schad began his artistic life in Zurich as a member of the Dada movement. The most fruitful results of this period of experimentation were the small abstract photograms he made in 1919, the Schadographs. In the 1920s, Schad returned to Germany and began to create his celebrated portraits. These works are characterized by a disturbing, even mesmerizing intensity. The faces of the men and women he portrayed reflect a moment when decadence and melancholy coincided, and Schad succeeded brilliantly in capturing this fugitive, transitional state. Even when the artist's paintings are apparently at their most objective, they engage in a complex theater of illusion. Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit traces the career of this fascinating and under-appreciated artist, while placing him in the context of other leading artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement. It is the most extensive English-language publication available on the artist and accompanies a major exhibition at Neue Galerie New York.
- Contents:
- Christian Schad: Reality and Illusion / Jill Lloyd 15
- "A voluntary international madman" Christian Schad and the Avant-Garde 1915-20 / Olaf Peters 29
- Christian Schad's "Magic Realism" The Formative Years and Maturity of the Artist: Rome/Naples 1923-25 - Vienna 1925-28 / Nikolaus Schad 39
- Christian Schad: Portraits of the 1920s / Michael Peppiatt 43
- Christian Schad's Drawings / Matthias Eberle 51
- Of Talent, Ambivalence, and the Worst of Times: Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit / Robert Storr 57
- Gaspard de la Nuit: Christian Schad's Schadographs 1962-77 / Ingrid Jenderko-Sichelschmidt 71
- Woodcuts, Posters, Schadographs 79
- Paintings 113
- Drawings, Late Schadographs 173
- Picture Captions / Christian Schad 221.
- Notes:
- "This catalogue has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit, Neue Galerie New York, 14 March-9 June 2003."--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 039332477X
- OCLC:
- 52961120
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