A revelatory, fast-paced account of the most exciting, frenzied, and revolutionary decade in art history--1905 to the dawn of World War I in 1914--and the avant-garde artists who indelibly changed our visual landscape
A revelatory, fast-paced account of the most exciting, frenzied, and revolutionary decade in art history--1905 to the dawn of World War I in 1914--and the avant-garde artists who indelibly changed our visual landscapeHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Philip Hook was, until recently, a board member and senior director of Impressionist and Modern Art at Sotheby’s in London. He has over 45 years’ experience and expertise in the art market as an auctioneer and dealer. He joined Christie’s in 1973 with a degree in the history of art from Cambridge University, and he headed Christie’s 19th Century Paintings Department from 1980 to 1987. He has appeared regularly on the BBC’s classic long-running series, Antiques Roadshow, as a picture expert. He is the author of five novels set in the art world and four nonfiction books, the most recent of which, Rogues’ Gallery, was also published by The Experiment. He lives in London.
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Contents
Introduction: A TUMULTUOUS DECADE
Part One: RELEASING CONTROL Basic Instinct Guiding lights: Van Gogh—Gauguin—Cezanne Color and Fauvism Expressionism and Angst Primitivism: The Wisdom of Savages Sex and Sublimation: Exciting the Whole Machine Anarchism Violence, War, and Guns Journeys Inward: The Symbolist Strand
Part Two: PARIS, CAPITAL OF MODERN ART Paris and Germany Paris and London Paris and Russia Paris and the Rest of Europe
Part Three: LOSING CONTROL Women as Trouble Drugs and Alcohol Descent into Madness Studio Gruffness Alienation from the Public Morbidity: Suicide and Death
Part Four: BEYOND INSTINCT Supermen Abstraction Blaue Reiter Matisse Picasso and Cubism Futurism: Beautiful Ideas that Kill Pioneers of Modernism
Part Five: KEEPING CONTROL Call the Police: Academicism and Conservative Taste Wriggle-and-Chiffon: Fashionable Portraitists Railroads and Rembrandts: Dealers and Collectors of Old Art Heritage, Museums, and National Collections
Part One: RELEASING CONTROL Basic Instinct Guiding lights: Van Gogh—Gauguin—Cezanne Color and Fauvism Expressionism and Angst Primitivism: The Wisdom of Savages Sex and Sublimation: Exciting the Whole Machine Anarchism Violence, War, and Guns Journeys Inward: The Symbolist Strand
Part Two: PARIS, CAPITAL OF MODERN ART Paris and Germany Paris and London Paris and Russia Paris and the Rest of Europe
Part Three: LOSING CONTROL Women as Trouble Drugs and Alcohol Descent into Madness Studio Gruffness Alienation from the Public Morbidity: Suicide and Death
Part Four: BEYOND INSTINCT Supermen Abstraction Blaue Reiter Matisse Picasso and Cubism Futurism: Beautiful Ideas that Kill Pioneers of Modernism
Part Five: KEEPING CONTROL Call the Police: Academicism and Conservative Taste Wriggle-and-Chiffon: Fashionable Portraitists Railroads and Rembrandts: Dealers and Collectors of Old Art Heritage, Museums, and National Collections
Finale: AUGUST 1914—ART SUSPENDED
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