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基本説明
Published to accompany an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this book presents the work that redefined the very notion of art and embodied at times a dizzying freedom from traditional social roles. The perceptive text explores topics ranging from the avant-garde (surrealism, experimental photography) to popular culture (tabloids, sports, the 'new woman') to extremist politics and war. Particular attention is given to photomontage, a technique that epitomized the era and found broad acceptance among artists and mass media outlets.
Full Description
In the 1920s and 1930s, photography became an immense phenomenon across Central Europe. This book presents the work of approximately one hundred individuals whose creations exemplify the potential of photography in the region between the two World Wars, bringing together for the first time works by recognized masters such as El Lissitzky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Hannah Hoch with such lesser-known but nonetheless important practitioners as Karel Teige and Jaromir Funke, Kazimierz Podsadecki, Karoly Escher and Trude Fleischmann.
Contents
Contents; Forewords and Acknowledgements; A Map of Courage by Peter Demetz; Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918 - 1945 by Matthew S. Witkovsky; 1. Starting Points; 2. The Cut-and-Paste World: Recovering from War; 3. Laboratories and Classrooms; 4. New Women - New Men; 5. Modern Living; 6. The Spread of Surrealism; 7. Political Documents; 8. Land Without a Name; 9. Cut-and-Paste World: War Returns; Biographies; Bibliography.
