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Making modernism : Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin

Title

Making modernism : Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin / curated by Dorothy Price [and three others].

Publication

London : Royal Academy of Arts, [2022]
New York : ARTBOOK/D.A.P.
©2022

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Description

165 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour); 27 cm

Summary

"Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin are among the exceptional artists associated with the emergence of Expressionism in Germany in the early decades of the twentieth century. Each challenged prevailing ideals of feminine identity at a time of great societal change. As women, they were expected to marry and raise a family; some chose to, some did not. As ambitious artists, all wanted to work, and as they rose to these challenges, their art further undermined conventions. Their depictions of children symbolise joy, hope and innocence but also melancholy, tension, curiosity, the passing of time and unfulfilled desire. Their radical depictions of the nude wrest the female body away from the male gaze towards a newfound role, expressive of powerful maternity and female subjectivity. These dramatic modernist compositions, with their fluid brushwork and bright hues, push at the boundaries of form, colour and spiritual meaning"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

First published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London 12 November 2022 - 12 February 2023."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-161) and index.

Contents

The making of Modernism in imperial Germany / Dorothy Price -- "To be a painter is to be alive" / Chantal Joffe RA in conversation with Dorothy Price -- Making a name : a Sturm exhibition of Jacoba van Heemskerck and Marianne Werefkin, March 1914 / Shulamith Behr -- Catalogue plates with artists' biographies : Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907), Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), Gabriele Münter (1877-1962), Marianne Werefkin (1860-1938), Ottilie Reylaender (1882-1965), Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923), Erma Bossi (1875-1952) / by Sarah Lea -- Timeline / Rhiannon Hope.

Call Number

JQF 23-511

ISBN

9781912520909
1912520907

OCLC

1295806881

Title

Making modernism : Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin / curated by Dorothy Price [and three others].

Publisher

London : Royal Academy of Arts, [2022]

Distributor

New York : ARTBOOK/D.A.P.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-161) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Price, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Cilla), 1969- organizer.

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution.

Report No.

(Coutts)063795661

Research Call Number

JQF 23-511

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