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Painting Berlin stories : Marsden Hartley, Oscar Bluemner, and the first American avant-garde in expressionist Berlin / Patricia McDonnell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDonnell, Patricia, 1956-
- Series:
- American university studies. Fine arts ; Series XX, v. 30.
- American university studies. Series XX, Fine arts ; v. 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting, American--German influences.
- Painting, American.
- Painting, American--20th century.
- Expressionism (Art)--Germany--Berlin.
- Expressionism (Art).
- Expatriate painters--Germany--Berlin.
- Expatriate painters.
- Painters--United States.
- Painters.
- United States.
- Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943.
- Hartley, Marsden.
- Bluemner, Oscar, 1867-1938.
- Bluemner, Oscar.
- Germany--Berlin.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, [2003]
- Contents:
- Chapter 2 Turn-of-the-Century American View of Germany 13
- Immigration and German-Americans 14
- Education 16
- Music 19
- Theater 21
- The American "Vogue for Nietzsche" 23
- Swing to Anti-German Sentiment in America 26
- Chapter 3 Force of Idealism, Transcendentalism, and Expressionism in American Early Modern Art 35
- The Legacy of Emerson and Goethe 36
- Wassily Kandinsky and German Expressionist Aesthetics 41
- Emersonian Transcendentalism in the Stieglitz Circle 46
- Anti-Rationalism and Its Impact on Early American Modernism 54
- Chapter 4 Marsden Hartley 63
- Beginnings in America 65
- Cezanne and Picasso 72
- Encounter with Gertrude Stein and William James 74
- First Contact with Germany 82
- Pageantry and Painting in Berlin 87
- Achievement in the War Motif Series 92
- Chapter 5 Oscar Bluemner 109
- Bluemner's Early Years in America 110
- Bluemner's Early Aesthetics 113
- Contact with Europe, 1912-1916 118
- Bluemner's Painting, 1912-1916 124
- Chapter 6 Albert Bloch, Lyonel Feininger, Charles Demuth 147
- The American Ausburger, Bloch and Feininger 147
- Charles Demuth 152.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-190).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820430668
- OCLC:
- 35049574
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