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Neolithic childhood : art in a false present, c. 1930

Title
Neolithic childhood : art in a false present, c. 1930 / edited by Anselm Frank and Tom Holert.
Publication
  • Berlin : HKW : Diaphanes, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Franke, Anselm
  • Holert, Tom
  • Haus der Kulturen der Welt, host institution.
Description
460 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits; 28 cm
Summary
Neolithic Childhood examines how in the interwar years the artistic avant-gardes in Europe and beyond reacted to the "crisis" of almost everything, from the barbarism of technological mass war to the hypocrisies of colonial discourse. The perceived need to re-establish European civilization after the disaster of the First World War led to an interminable reconstruction of origins and beginnings - making ground zero the limiting function of modernity. Based on the writings of the anti-academic art historian Carl Einstein (1885-1940), the exhibition is devoted to despair over the present and the pressing interest in altering humanity, as manifested from the 1920s to the 1940s in the artistic avant-gardes and the sciences. Exhibition: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (13.04.-09.07.2018).
Subject
  • Einstein, Carl, 1885-1940 > Influence > Exhibitions
  • Einstein, Carl, 1885-1940
  • World War (1914-1918)
  • 1900-1999
  • Art, European > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Europe > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Art and the war > Exhibitions
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
  • Europe
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • History.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, April 13 - July 9, 2018.
  • Part of Kanon-Fragen, a 2016-2019 series of exhibitions by the HKW.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
JQF 18-1945
ISBN
  • 9783035801064
  • 3035801061
OCLC
1039305621
Title
Neolithic childhood : art in a false present, c. 1930 / edited by Anselm Frank and Tom Holert.
Publisher
Berlin : HKW : Diaphanes, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Franke, Anselm, editor.
Holert, Tom, editor.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, host institution.
Other Editions:
Also issued as: Neolithische Kindheit : Kunst in einer falschen Gegenwart, ca. 1930. 9783035801194
Research Call Number
JQF 18-1945
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