Beyond the Mainstream

by Selz, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780521554138
• ISBN10: 0521554136
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This selection of essays by a prominent art historian, critic, and curator of modern art examines the art and artists of the twentieth century who have operated outside the established art world. In a lucid and accessible style, Peter Selz explores modern art as it is reflected in, and has had an impact on, the tremendous transformations of politics and culture, both in the United States and in Europe. An authoritative overview of a neglected phenomenon, his essays explore the complex relationship between art at the periphery and art at the supposed centre, and how marginal art has affected that of the mainstream.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
PART I: EUROPE
Ferdinand Hodler (1972)	13	(9)
Art in a Turbulent Era: German and Austrian Expressionist Painting Re-Viewed (1978)	22	(21)
Emergence of the Avant-Garde: Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon of 1913 (1991)	43	(12)
Schoenberg and the Visual Arts (1974)	55	(14)
The Persistence of Expressionism: The Second Generation (1989)	69	(9)
German Realism of the Twenties: The Artist as Social Critic (1980)	78	(13)
Max Beckmann: The Self-Portraits (1992)	91	(16)
Degenerate Art Reconstructed (1991)	107	(6)
Revival and Survival of Expressionist Trends in the Art of the GDR (1989)	113	(16)
Eduardo Chillida: Sculpture in the Public Domain (1986, 1988)	129	(16)
PART II: ATLANTIC CROSSING
Americans Abroad (1993)	145	(16)
The Impact from Abroad: Foreign Guests and Visitors (1996)	161	(19)
Modernism Comes to Chicago: The Institute of Design (1996)	180	(17)
New Images of Man: Introduction (1959)	197	(4)
Directions in Kinetic Sculpture (1966)	201	(14)
PART III: UNITED STATES
Max Beckmann in America (1984)	215	(14)
Sam Francis: Blue Balls (1991)	229	(6)
Agnes Denes: The Artist as Universalist (1992)	235	(15)
The Flaccid Art (1963)	250	(4)
Notes on Funk (1967)	254	(7)
Llyn Foulkes' Works of the 1960s: Images of Disruption and Illusion (1987)	261	(7)
Harold Persico Paris (1992)	268	(10)
Rupert Garcia: The Artist as Advocate (1991)	278	(5)
Oh Say Can You See? Flags: Johns to Burkhardt (1992)	283	(5)
Bedri Baykam: American Xenophobia and Expressionist Dramas (1986)	288	(5)
Notes	293	(18)
Index	311