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Magic realism : art in Weimar Germany 1919-33 / Matthew Gale & Katy Wan.

Title
Magic realism : art in Weimar Germany 1919-33 / Matthew Gale & Katy Wan.
Author
Gale, Matthew,
Publication
  • London : Tate Publishing, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Tate Modern (Gallery), host institution.
  • Wan, Katy,
Description
111 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
This publication draws upon the German and Austrian paintings of the George Economou Collection to explore the vibrant art of magic realism. The term is today comonly associated with the twentieth-century literature of Latin America, but it was first coined (alongside the phrase `post- expressionism') by the German artist and critic Franz Roh in 1926, to describe a shift from the spiritual and anxious art of the Expressionist era, towards something more directly located in actuality. Magic realism can be seen as parallel to, and overlapping with, Neue Sachlichkeit (or `new objectivity'), a movement associated with the likes of Otto Dix, George Grosz and Christian Schad. As the term implies, the movement encompassed aspects of the visionary beyond the objective. Beyond the studios of those painters `returning' to realism, lay connections with a dispassionate photographic style as well as realism and satire in literature and theatre, cabaret and cinema. The Weimar era was a period not only of staggering financial instability, but also of extraordinary artistic creativity. Extreme political and economic conditions seemingly firing imaginative production in the context of mass protests and the rise of popular, public entertainments. Exhibition: Tate Modern, London, UK (June 2018-June 2019).
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Event (note)
  • Catalogue of an exhibition held at Tate Modern, London, 30 July 2018 - 14 July 2019.
Contents
Magic realism: art in Weimar Germany 1919-33 -- Introduction: 'The interior figure of the exterior world' -- The circus: 'abnormal situations' -- From the street to the studio: 'looking for adventure' -- Faith and magic: 'a higher degree of reality' -- Coda: 'from the visible to the invisible'.
ISBN
  • 184976588X
  • 9781849765886
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries