Expressionism reassessed /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Behr, Shulamith, Fanning, David, Jarman, Douglas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester [England] ; New York : Manchester University Press; [1993]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : Expressionism : bonfire and jellyfish / John Willett
  • Introduction : Expressionism reassessed / Shulamith Behr, David Fanning and Douglas Jarman
  • The origins of expressionism and the notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk / Peter Vergo
  • Concepts of expressionism in Scandinavia / Marit Werenskiold
  • Expressionism in exile in Great Britain / J.M. Ritchie
  • Expressionism : a health warning / David Elliott
  • 'The ascent to nature' : some metaphors of 'nature' in early expressionist art / Gill Perry
  • Expressionist sculpture c. 1910-30 and the significance of its dual architectural/ideological frame / Erich Ranfft
  • Expressionist architecture today / Dennis Sharp
  • Expressionism and film : the testament of Dr Caligari / Werner Sudendorf
  • Musical expressionism : the search for autonomy / Christopher Hailey
  • "Wilde Musik" : composers, critics and expressionism / Peter Franklin.
  • Defining musical expressionism : Schoenberg and others / Stephen Hinton
  • The body and the dance : Kirchner's Swiss work as expressionism / Colin Rhodes
  • Expressionism and dance : a literary perspective / Manfred Kuxdorf
  • The religious element in expressionist theatre / Raymond Furness
  • Deciphering Wassily Kandinsky's Violet : activist expressionism and the Russian Slavonic milieu / Shulamith Behr
  • Lothar Schreyer's theatre works and the use of masks / Brian Keith-Smith
  • Culture and anarchy in expressionist drama / Rhys Williams.