Max Beckmann : the world as a stage / edited by the Kunsthalle Bremen--Der Kunstverein in Bremen and the Museum Barberini, Postdam ; Exhibition Eva Fischer-Hausdorf and Ortrud Westheider ; with contributions by Verena Borgmann, Eva Fischer-Hausdorf, Miriam Häßler, Sebastian Karnatz, Eefke Kleimann, Irene Pieper, Lynette Roth, Ortrud Westheider, Christiane Zeiller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beckmann, Max, 1884-1950, artist.

Contributor:

Kunsthalle Bremen, editor.

Museum Barberini (Potsdam, Germany), editor.

Standardized Title:

Paintings. Selections (2017)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckmann, Max, 1884-1950--Exhibitions.

Beckmann, Max.

Beckmann, Max, 1884-1950.

Theater in art--Exhibitions.

Theater in art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

223 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 31 cm

Other Title:

World as a stage

Place of Publication:

Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, [2017]

Contents:

The artist as manager, producer, and scene-shifter : the Theater of the World in Max Beckmann / Eva Fischer-Hausdorf

Max Beckmann's pictorial dramaturgy : painting as display / Ortrud Westheider

Between worldview and the experience of catastrophe : on the Theater of the World in literature / Irene Pieper

Parody, experiment, and self-affirmation : the plays of Max Beckmann / Sebastian Karnatz

Clowns, animals, and artistes : Max Beckmann's passion for the circus, as reflected in his sketchbooks / Christiane Zeiller

Simultaneous staging : Max Beckmann's triptychs as stage sets / Lynette Roth

Masquerade : role-playing in pictorial space / Miriam Häßler

Chronicle : Beckmann as observer / Miriam Häßler

Theater : the complex world on the stage / Eefke Kleimann

Variety show : scenes in the Theater of Infinity / Eefke Kleimann

Circus : life as a high-wire act / Verena Borgmann

Audience : the role of the spectator / Verena Borgmann

Argonauts : the artist's self-image / Miriam Häßler

Theater, variety, circus : Biographical documentation / Eefke Kleimann

Max Beckmann : biographical timeline / Eefke Kleimann.

Notes:

"This catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition, Max Beckmann : the world as a stage, September 30, 2017 to February 4, 2018, Kunsthalle Bremen; February 24 to June 2018, Museum Barberini, Potsdam"--Page 224.

"Many paintings by Max Beckmann (1884-1950) depict the world of the theater, circus, and variety shows. Driven by an urge toward showmanship and display, the painter turned the pictorial frame into his stage. This publication is the first to pursue the question of how Beckmann's art fits in with the concept of world theater in the history of ideas. It opens up a new way of looking at the work of this exceptional artist of the twentieth century"--Back jacket cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783791356976

9783791368344

3791368346

9783791367897

3791367897

9783791356969

3791356968

9783791368337

3791368338

9783791367880

3791367889

3791356976

OCLC:

982089602