Magic realism : art in Weimar Germany 1919-33 / Matthew Gale & Katy Wan.

• Magic realism: art in Weimar Germany 1919-33 -- Introduction: 'The interior figure of the exterior world' -- The circus: 'abnormal situations' -- From the street to the studio: 'looking for adventure' -- Faith and magic: 'a higher degree of reality' -- Coda: 'from the visible to the invisible'.

• This publication draws upon the German and Austrian paintings of the George Economou Collection to explore the vibrant art of magic realism. The term is today comonly associated with the twentieth-century literature of Latin America, but it was first coined (alongside the phrase `post- expressionism') by the German artist and critic Franz Roh in 1926, to describe a shift from the spiritual and anxious art of the Expressionist era, towards something more directly located in actuality. Magic realism can be seen as parallel to, and overlapping with, Neue Sachlichkeit (or `new objectivity'), a movement associated with the likes of Otto Dix, George Grosz and Christian Schad. As the term implies, the movement encompassed aspects of the visionary beyond the objective. Beyond the studios of those painters `returning' to realism, lay connections with a dispassionate photographic style as well as realism and satire in literature and theatre, cabaret and cinema.The Weimar era was a period not only of staggering financial instability, but also of extraordinary artistic creativity. Extreme political and economic conditions seemingly firing imaginative production in the context of mass protests and the rise of popular, public entertainmentsExhibition: Tate Modern, London, UK (June 2018-June 2019). 

Ämnesord

Intellektuellt liv  (sao)

Tysk konst  (sao)

Konst  (sao)

Magisk realism (konst)  (sao)

Konst  -- historia (sao)

Magic realism (Art)  -- Germany -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Art, German  -- 20th century -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Painting, German  -- 20th century -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Magic realism (Art)  (LCSH)

Art  (LCSH)

Intellectual life  (LCSH)

Art, German  (LCSH)

Germany  -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Germany.  (fast)

1918-1933 (Weimarrepubliken, Tyskland)  (sao)

Genre

Exhibition catalogs.  (lcgft)

Utställningskataloger  (gmgpc/swe)

Institutionsnamn

George Economou Collection.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ib-f.5 Konsthistoria: Mellaneuropa: 1905-

Klassifikation

709.43 (DDC)

Ib-f.5 (kssb/8)