Max Beckmann
Subtitle: the world as a stage
By: edited by the Kunsthalle Bremen--Der Kunstverein in Bremen and the Museum Barberini, Postdam ; Exhibition Eva Fischer-Hausdorf and Ortrud Westheider ; with contributions by Verena Borgmann [and 8 others]
Contributors: Fischer-Hausdorf, Eva, curator; Westheider, Ortrud, curator; Borgmann, Verena, contributor; Kunsthalle Bremen; Museum Barberini (Potsdam, Germany)
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9783791356976; 9783791368344; 9783791367897
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Theater in art; Exhibitions
Other titles: World as a stage
Notes: "This catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition, Max Beckmann : the world as a stage, September 30, 2017 to February 4, 2018, Kunsthalle Bremen; February 24 to June 2018, Museum Barberini, Potsdam"--Colophon.

"Many paintings by Max Beckmann (1884-1950) depict the world of the theater, circus, and variety shows. Driven by an urge toward showmanship and display, the painter turned the pictorial frame into his stage. This publication is the first to pursue the question of how Beckmann's art fits in with the concept of world theater in the history of ideas. It opens up a new way of looking at the work of this exceptional artist of the twentieth century"--Back jacket cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The artist as manager, producer, and scene-shifter : the Theater of the World in Max Beckmann  -- Eva Fischer-Hausdorf; title: Max Beckmann's pictorial dramaturgy : painting as display  -- Ortrud Westheider; title: Between worldview and the experience of catastrophe : on the Theater of the World in literature  -- Irene Pieper; title: Parody, experiment, and self-affirmation : the plays of Max Beckmann  -- Sebastian Karnatz; title: Clowns, animals, and artistes : Max Beckmann's passion for the circus, as reflected in his sketchbooks  -- Christiane Zeiller; title: Simultaneous staging : Max Beckmann's triptychs as stage sets  -- Lynette Roth; title: Masquerade : role-playing in pictorial space  -- Miriam Häßler; title: Chronicle : Beckmann as observer  -- Miriam Häßler; title: Theater : the complex world on the stage  -- Eefke Kleimann; title: Variety show : scenes in the Theater of Infinity  -- Eefke Kleimann; title: Circus : life as a high-wire act  -- Verena Borgmann; title: Audience : the role of the spectator  -- Verena Borgmann; title: Argonauts : the artist's self-image  -- Miriam Häßler; title: Theater, variety, circus : Biographical documentation  -- Eefke Kleimann; title: Max Beckmann : biographical timeline -- Eefke Kleimann.