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Modern art in Eastern Europe : from the Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939 / S.A. Mansbach.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: xvi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521450853
  • 9780521450850
  • 0521456959
  • 9780521456951
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.470904 21
LOC classification:
  • N6758 .M352 1999
Contents:
Introduction -- The Czech lands -- Poland and Lithuania -- The Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia -- The southern Balkans -- Romania -- Hungary.
Summary: "In this award-winning study, Steven Mansbach provides the first coherent narrative of the modern art movements of Eastern Europe. Analyzing a vast range of works, many reproduced here for the first time, the author argues that our understanding of modernism is incomplete without consideration of this material. He shows how Cubism, Expressionism and Constructivism, among other modernist styles, were amalgamated with deeply rooted visual traditions in several vital centers, including Prague, Warsaw, and Budapest, in order to express the most pressing concerns of the day, particularly nationalism. Mansbach also considers the critical response of the Eastern European art public to these various avante-garde movements. A revisionist interpretation of modernism, Modern Art in Eastern Europe provides a much-needed reassessment of the art of this century, as well as its historiography."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-370) and index.

Introduction -- The Czech lands -- Poland and Lithuania -- The Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia -- The southern Balkans -- Romania -- Hungary.

"In this award-winning study, Steven Mansbach provides the first coherent narrative of the modern art movements of Eastern Europe. Analyzing a vast range of works, many reproduced here for the first time, the author argues that our understanding of modernism is incomplete without consideration of this material. He shows how Cubism, Expressionism and Constructivism, among other modernist styles, were amalgamated with deeply rooted visual traditions in several vital centers, including Prague, Warsaw, and Budapest, in order to express the most pressing concerns of the day, particularly nationalism. Mansbach also considers the critical response of the Eastern European art public to these various avante-garde movements. A revisionist interpretation of modernism, Modern Art in Eastern Europe provides a much-needed reassessment of the art of this century, as well as its historiography."--Publisher description.

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