Max Beckmann
By: edited by Sean Rainbird.
Contributors: Rainbird, Sean.; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); Centre Georges Pompidou.; Tate Modern (Gallery)
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art; Distributed in the United States and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Beckmann, Max, 1884-1950 -- Exhibitions; Beckmann, Max, 1884-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "Max Beckmann (1884-1950) is widely acknowledged as one of Germany's leading painters of the twentieth century. His work has affinities with Expressionism and, in the 1920, with Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity)." "This collaboration, an association between the Pompidou Centre, Tate Modern and The Museum of Modern Art, marks the first occasion since the 1960s that Paris, London and New York have hosted comprehensive surveys dedicated to Beckmann's work. This book, shared between Tate Modern and The Museum of Modern Art, is the first comprehensive English-language catalogue on the artist published since Beckmann's centenary retrospective in 1984. It contains new research by German, American and British scholars, using documentary material published over the past decade. There are, too, several distinctive essays by practicing artists, for whom Beckmann's contribution to art has special significance."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-285) and index.
Catalog of an exhibition held at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Sept. 10, 2002-Jan. 6, 2003, Tate Modern, London, Feb. 12-May 5, 2003, MoMA QNS, New York, June 25-Sept. 30, 2003.
Table of contents: title: The; title: Beckmann effect -- Robert Storr; title: Images of the times in Beckmann's early work -- Sean Rainbird; title: Beckmann's Frankfurt cityscapes : concepts of space -- Susanne Bieber -- The; title: painter at the beach : Beckmann's Italian paintings -- Nina Peter; title: Beckmann and the triptych : a sacred form in the context of modernism -- Anette Kruszynski; title: Beckmann's lucid somnambulism -- Didier Ottinger; title: Leon Golub on Beckmann -- -- A; title: gathering storm : Max Beckmann and cultural politics 1925-38 -- Sean Rainbird; title: Wallenstein in red -- Barbara Copeland Buenger; title: Beckmann's Death -- William Kentridge; title: Beckmann : exile in Amsterdam 1937-47 -- Jill Lloyd; title: Boston, Beckmann and after -- Ellsworth Kelly; title: Poetics of space : Beckmann's Falling Man -- Charles W. Haxthausen.