German Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter and Its Legacies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526121622)

This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction. For the first time Blaue Reiter is subjected to a variety of novel inter-disciplinary perspectives, ranging from a philosophical enquiry into its language and visual perception to analyses of its gender dynamics, its reception at different historical junctures throughout the twentieth century and its legacies for post-colonial aesthetic practices. The volume offers a new perspective on familiar aspects of Expressionism and abstraction, taking seriously the inheritance of modernism for the twenty-first century in ways that will help to recalibrate the field of Expressionist studies for future scholarship. Blaue Reiter still matters, the contributors argue, because the legacies of abstraction are still being debated by artists, writers, philosophers and cultural theorists today.

Author: Dorothy Price
ISBN-10: 152612162X
ISBN-13: 9781526121622
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/18/2020
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2021