ISBN: 1854372521 9781854372529

Category: Art / History / General

Page count: 80

"The term 'Expressionist' was initially applied to French modern painting displayed in a Berlin Secession exhibition of 1911. By the time of the First World War, the broader concept of 'Expressionsim' permeated German metropolitan culture at many levels. Though lacking stylistic cohesion, the movement was united by a rejection of Impressionism and a search for an inner, essential reality behind the external world of appearances. Shulamith Behr explores themes of opposition - from equivocal images of the city and commercial life to counter-images of the country."--BOOK COVER.