Modernisme
Subtitle: l'art abstrait belge et l'Europe
By: sous la direction de Johan De Smet ; textes de Liesbeth Decan ... [et al.].
Contributors: Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Ghent, Belgium)
Publisher: Museum voor Schone Kunsten; Mercatorfonds
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Gent; Brussels
Language: fre
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9789462300019
Subjects: Abstract Art; Exhibitions; European Art
Other titles: Art abstrait belge et l'Europe
Description: In this book, the Belgian historical avant-garde around 1920 is viewed for the first time from a broader European perspective. Not only did protagonists like Jules Schmalzigaug, Georges Vantongerloo and Marthe Donas establish an immediate link with Italian futurism, the 'Nieuwe Beelding' (or neoplasticism) and post-cubism, but in 1920 Karel Maes, Jozef Peeters and Victor Servranckx began to play a prominent role in European constructivism. The pursuit of a community art was not restricted to visual art, as evidenced by architecture and applied art, but also literature, music and the performing arts. Belgian photography and films were also a reflection of international modernism. In this book Belgium's earliest abstract artists are juxtaposed for the first time with like-minded foreign artists such as Fernand Léger, László Moholy-Nagy, Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg. Exhibition: Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium (2.3.-30.6.2013).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium, Mar. 2-June 30, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: Jules Schmalzigaug et la modernisme international d'avant-guerre  -- Valerie Verhack; title: Entre la sculpture et la peinture :; title: le dialogue de Georges Vantongerloo avec l'infini  -- Marek Wieczorek; title: Marthe Donas, une artiste d'avant-garde entre néocubisme et art abstrait  -- Peter J.H. Pauwels; title: Au-delà de la mimesis :; title: vers un art autonome en Belgique, 1917-1930  -- Johan De Smet; title: Paul Joostens et son royaume dadaïste de choses inutiles  -- Phillip Van den Bossche; title: L'internationalisme des revues modernistes  -- Ceri-Anne can de Geer, Angelica Overwater, Laura Kollwelter; title: La conception graphique en Belgique pendant l'entre-deux-guerres  -- Katrien Van Haute; title: La réception du modernisme belge  -- Sergio Servellón; title: L'art communautaire au début des années 1920 :; title: de l'expressionnisme au constructivisme  -- Hans Vandevoorde; title: Abstraction et modernisme dans la photographie et le cinéma belges 1920-1935  -- Steven Jacobs et Liesbeth Decan; title: Architecture et modernisme 1912-1940  -- Marc Dubois; title: Chronologie sommaire 1912-1933.; title: Artistes, expositions, revues, événements -- Peter J.H. Pauwels (avec la collaboration de Virginie Devillez).