Years of disarray 1908-1928
Subtitle: avant-gardes in Central Europe
By: Karel Srp
Contributors: Muzeum umění Olomouc
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Arbor vitae societas; Muzeum umění Olomouc
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Praha]; Olomouc
Language: eng
Number of pages: 671
ISBN-13: 9788088256090
Subjects: Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Exhibitions; History; Modern Art
Other titles: Avant-gardes in Central Europe
Description: Its twelve chapters are describing the breaking two decades of the modern and avant-garde art in Central Europe. The book brings a deep view into history of Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the new states established after its breakup in 1918. The readers will find out new details about central European visual art, scupltures, typography, photography, film and scene making - all that explained on examples of more than hundred authors from expresioninsm of 1908 till abstraction of 1928. Not only well known artists as Emil Filla, František Kupka, Max Oppenheimer, Oskar Kokoschka, László Moholy-Nagy, Władysław Strzemiński or Anton Jaszusch are presented; there are many other artists who took part on the exciting art scene of this moving period. The complex presentation of this period comes together with almost forty period magazines and almanacs which were connecting Central European centers of art as Budapest, Vienna, Prague, Cracow, Zagreb, Belgrade, Košice, Lvov, Warsaw, Vilnius or Novi Sad. The book is written by more than twenty international professionals from al the countries of the Central Europe and from the USA and it took them several years to finish such a vast and unique professional publication which has never been published before in such a bride scope.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Olomouc Museum of Art, September 20, 2018-January 27, 2019 [and three others].

"The book is a part of the ïnternational project Year of Disarray 1908-1928, supported by the European Union and ministries of culture of the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovak Republic, Hungary and Austria."-- colophon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.