Group dynamics : collectives of the modernist period / edited by Karin Althaus, Susanne Böller, Sarah Louisa Henn, Eva Huttenlauch, Matthias Mühling, and Stephanie Weber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Althaus, Karin, editor.

Böller, Susanne, editor.

Henn, Sarah Louisa, editor.

Huttenlauch, Eva, editor.

Mühling, Matthias, editor.

Weber, Stephanie, 1978- editor.

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, host institution.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Hatje Cantz Verlag, publisher.

Language:

English

German

Japanese

Portuguese

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Modern.

Group work in art--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Group work in art.

Artistic collaboration--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Artistic collaboration.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Essays.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

447 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Collectives of the modernist period

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Hatje Cantz, [2022]

Language Note:

Text in English, with translations from the Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, and German.

Summary:

The catalogue "Group Dynamics : Collectives of the Modernist Period" sets out from the observation that the art-historical scholarship on the specific ways in which artists' groups have shaped the evolution of art remains fragmentary and often narrowly focused on the West. Instead of staging a contest of rivaling aesthetic tendencies, the show sheds light on the development of collectives and the historical circumstances in which they emerged, reconstructing their political agendas and visions both practicable and, in some instances, utopian. The ubiquity of similar historical structures and communal strategies in different settings underscores the crucial role that collectives have played in introducing and disseminating central ideas and innovations within and beyond modernist art.-- OCLC OLUC.

"Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Beijing, Khartoum, Lahore, Tokyo: over the course of the 20th century, artists formed collectives all over the world. But if the impulse to create such groups was universal, the concerns of their members, their aesthetic methods, political goals and utopian aspirations varied greatly. This massive volume illuminates the emergence and development of collectives against the background of their respective social and cultural contemporaneity from 1900 to 1980."-- Description from Artbook.com, accessed 20221014.

"The period under consideration in the presentation--from around 1910 to the 1980s--spans international modernization movements and anticolonial struggles for independence."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

Contents:

Kulturstiftung des bundes: a word of welcome / Hortensia Völckers and Kirsten Haß

Introduction and acknowledgements

In or out: New measurements

Distribution: Subjects of solidarity

Art schools: Education and discourse

Nsukka School: Natural synthesis

Grupo dos Cinco: Expropriating the self

Bombay Progressive Artists' Group & Lahore Art Circle: Unity in diversity

Madrasat Al-Khartoum / Al-Kristaliyyun: What's in the name?

Grupa "A.R.": The collective as collector

Wuming Huahui: No name group

Artistas del Pueblo & Martín Fierro: Group identity as antagonism

Casablanca School: On the stage of history

Kokuga Sosaku Kyokai, Kokuyokai, Action, Mavo, Sanka: Japanese artists' groups of the Taisho-period

List of exhibited works

Group dictionary.

Notes:

"Translations, Sarah Baily (Portuguese), Anthony Beckwith (Spanish), Beth Cary (Japanese), Joseph Spooner (German), Gerrit Jackson (German ...)."--Page 447.

With contributions by approximately 28 authors.--Page 447.

On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Lenbachhaus Munich, October 19, 2021-April 24, 2022, extended until June 12, 2022--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-443).

Local Notes:

"Group Dynamics--Collectives of the Modernist Period" : October 19, 2021-June 12, 2022, Lenbachhaus Munich, Munich, Germany.

On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Lenbachhaus Munich, October 19, 2021 - April 24, 2022, extended untill June 12, 2022.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

German book trade edition

English museum edition

English edition

ISBN:

9783775750400

3775750401

OCLC:

1317672134

Publisher Number:

9783775750400