The Robert Gore Rifkind Centre for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art contains the worlds most comprehensive and distinguished collection of German Expressionist prints and drawings, illustrated books, and periodicals. The essays in volume 1 place the collection in
German Expressionist Prose: Theory and Practice
โ Scribed by Augustinus Dierick
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 340
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
In this book Augustinus Dierick focuses on another significant but hitherto neglected medium of German Expressionist thought โ short narrative prose โ in order to illuminate and evaluate the contribution of that genre to one of the twentieth century's most powerful artistic movements.
โฆ Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part One: Fundamental Problems
One. Introduction: Aims and Methods
Two. From Crisis to Expression
Three. Expressionism and the Modern World
Four. Art and Society
Part Two: Themes of Expressionist Prose
Five. Ecce Homo
Six. Problems of Integration
Seven. Problems of Autonomy
Eight. Autistic Worlds
Nine. Eros in Extremis
Ten. God and the Search for Utopia
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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