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The volume also investigates the significance of the streetwalker as a primary motif, and provides insight on the series in the context of Kirchner's wider oeuvre. The book also includes a survey of issues and contemporary concerns in the printmakers world. Popular Books. The volume also investigates the significance of the streetwalker as a primary motif, and provides insight on the series in the context of Kirchner's wider oeuvre.

Berlin Street Scence by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is one of the greatest German paintings of the twentieth century. This newly restituted work has now joined the collection of the Neue Galerie, which is devoted to early twentieth-century German and Austrian art. This volume provides a full exploration of the history and significance of Kirchner's masterpiece. Explore the oeuvre of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, one of the most important German Expressionist painters of the 20th century.

Throughout his career, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner employed a highly inventive and original use of color. He favored novel applications of paint in unusual matte finishes. For Kirchner, color was of primary importance, coupled with technique and style.

In his deeply personal depictions, he focused on the places where he lived and worked and his close friends and associates. This book, accompanying a major exhibition at the Neue Galerie New York, provides a visual survey of Kirchner's oeuvre and offers an in-depth analysis of different aspects of the artist's output.

Essays by leading experts examine Kirchner's approach to color, his interest in the decorative arts, how electric light affected his treatment of color, the impact of Nietzsche on his work, and how he was profoundly changed by World War I. This book includes illustrations of nearly 40 paintings, 30 prints, as well as drawings, sketchbooks, photographs, and decorative work. The modernist attitude towards the city was affirmative and regarded the city as a locus where nature and artifice could coexist in balance and create a new modern beauty.

They praised Kultur Culture as opposed to Zivilisation Civilization , Gemeinschaft Community in contrast to Gesellschaft Society and the authenticity of nature in contrast to the artifice of the city. Expressionism; Art and Idea,! Berlin; Culture and the Metropolis,! She identifies Berlin as a big capitalist city that best portrays the dominance of the money economy.

In these pictures the interaction between men and women is an interaction between buyer and seller.

Whisked away, gone the next time. Donald E. Throughout this book he considers the intellectual environment within which artists work as inextricably linked with the birth of their artistic style. The Art Bulletin,! Lloyd agrees with! An element that Lloyd adds to the existing discourse is that of crowd psychology and its subsequent spiritual distance.

Berlin street scenes are not the locus of alienation, but on the contrary the locus of a new beauty. It is very important for the grounding of his argument that he discusses these images in relation to the earlier Impressionistic treatment of Berlin and does not see them as one more aspect of the negative Expressionist representation of the city, as Gordon does.

Unlike the French Impressionists who embraced Paris, in the paintings of the German Impressionists there is no representation of the contemporary urban reality.

It was through the German Expressionists that the breakthrough to modernity was achieved. Streetwalkers were commonplace, especially since bordellos had been!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They all take as their point of departure the belief that a work of art expresses a zeitgeist and thus reflects the social context of its environment.

And it is through this belief that they reach the conclusion of urban alienation. However, adopting a Marxist perspective she is dangerously close to an idealistic argument and use of material thinking. Gordon throughout his book uses the tools of the social historian and attempts to embed the art works in their social and intellectual milieu.