Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Das Musée d`Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne besitzt eine bedeutende Sammlung von Werken Victor Brauners; diese bemerkenswerten Arbeiten sind auch charakteristisch für den Entwicklungsprozeß eines Werkes, für welches sich die Bezeichnung surrealistisch oder esoterisch als unzureichend erweist, wenn es sich darum handelt, es zu erklären oder dessen Vielfalt auszuloten. In der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts widerstand das Imaginäre von Victor Brauner allen formalistischen Versuchungen, er wich allen überraschenden, allzu bequemen Trompe-Poeil-Irritationen aus, aber auch den Montagen von Gegenständen, deren Banalität sich gegen semantische Spiele stemmt und dabei überschwenglich wirkt. Bei Victor Brauner keine Spur von einem zu plakativen Hang zum Automatismus, dessen Schwächen und Tricks er wohl erkannt hatte. Der Surrealismus war für ihn vielmehr eine Bestätigung. Mit dem Surrealismus wurde der romantischen Tradition der Stempel der Moderne aufgedrückt, jener Kultur, von der Victor Brauner gänzlich durchdrungen war, und aus deren Quelle er seine Inspiration schöpfte. ISBN 2907667025

Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. - PREFACE Rather than a history of an artist`s output or of a movement, " Léger and the Modern Spirit " presents a fresh view based on careful study of avant-garde movements in the years between the wars. The rational, scientific, almost mathematical stance of this exhibition corresponds to the ideas it sets out to present and the intellectual movement it seeks to define. Like a geologist finding and following the confluents of a watercourse, Gladys Fabre has traced the evolution of this intellectual movement, linking diverse aspects of it to each other in the intense intellectual climate of the twenties in Europe and the United States. Gladys Fabre and Marie-Odile Briot have characterized this as the "Modern Spirit". It is a title which gives a good idea of the scope of the present exhibition and may be found in a chapter of "Post-Cubism" (1918), the first publicaton on which Ozenfant and Le Corbusier collaborated and which predates the review L`Esprit Nouveau which they edited from 1920 to 1925. The title "Modern Spirit" was preferred to "New Spirit" ("L`Esprit Nouveau") because, notwithstanding the connection between the review and the present exhibition, it refers to a phenomenon which covers a longer period and a greater area than those traditionally associated with the review. Far from underestimating L`Esprit Nouveau, the exhibition and the view it presents recognize the important role of the review in spreading its main ideas far beyond the frontiers of France and the influence it had after 1925. The exhibition further highlights the way in which Légers paintings and writings made an essential contribution to the conception of the "modern" movement and the impetus he gave it through the Académie Moderne between 1924 and 1931. In the Académie, Léger had numerous pupils, both French and foreign, who spread his teaching throughout Europe and his influence continued to be felt in the United States as late as 1936. The link between the intellectual movements which inspired Purism and Léger`s work has already been studied and presented by Christopher Green in the "Léger and Purist Paris" exhibition in the Täte Gallery in 1970. However, the very title of this exhibition shows that Christopher Green limited his remarkable study to Paris. The task he set himself was basically to analyse Léger`s Parisian output, Post-Cubism and Purism. The international impact of the ideas of the Purist movement and of Léger fall outside the scope of his study. However, Gladys Fabre has sought to demonstrate that, far from being restricted to Paris alone, the ideas underlyring the Modern Spirit had many ramifications abroad, both through LEsprit Nouveau and the work of Léger. Let us note that LEsprit Nouveau is subtitled "International, illustrated review of contemporary activity, art, letters, sciences, architecture". This title adequately defines the interests of the review. France can thus be said to have taken part in the formation of an international avant-garde, a role so far denied it by historians and critics. This was the avant-garde of geometric art in which, as we shall see, mechanistic-Purist art and abstract and non-objective art culminated, evolving alongside objective reality. It would seem, then, that during this decade, French art was not limited to Post-Cubist conformism and the Surrealist adventure. Having noted the link between French intellectual movements and international movements, it is worthwile recalling how it differed and in what way it was special. For whereas it drew sustenance from these international movements, contributing in return by opening the pages of LEsprit Nouveau to articles and illustrations by foreign artists and men of science, it still remained opposed, for the most part, to contemporary avant-garde movements, either because of their form or their content. Its attitude to the concrete reality of the outside world is resolutely optimistic, euphoric even, whereas some other contemporary movements, such as Expressionism, Dadaism and Surrealism criticize and reject this world, while others, such as Neo-Plasticism and Suprematism seek to transcend it, the better to be rid of it. The idea which unites these artists is the deep-seated conviction that the industrial and technological society in which they were living would not lead to the enslavement of man, but that it offered him the hope of liberation. Moreover, this society was born of the human mind which, by the rigor of its approach, had achieved conceptual perfection and had consummated form as a function of use. …
Schlagworte: Leger, Moderne, Kunst, 20. Jahrhundert

Guter Zustand mit leichten Spuen am Einband Randbräunung . Rosafarbener Karton Einband. Innen minim. Bräunung sonst sehr gut. Hochinteressante Beschreibung der Modernen Kunst an Beispielen von Kandisky , Kokoschka , Klee und vielen anderen aus der Sicht der End-40er- Jahre
Schlagworte: Moderne Kunst

Darstellung zum zeitgeschichtlichen Konzept der Moderne und dem Entstehen des Nationalsozialismus im Rheinland, anhand von vier Fallstudien zu den Bereichen Literatur, Theater, Rundfunk, Film, Musik, Bildende Kunst und Photographie. Exemplar gut erhalten.
Schlagworte: Zeitgeschichte, Nationalsozialismus, Moderne, Rheinland

Widmungsexemplar. Vom Herausgeber signiert. Einband leicht berieben. - HEINRICH MEIER Die Moderne begreifen - die Moderne vollenden? -- DANIEL BELL Zur Auflösung der Widersprüche von Modernität und Modernismus: Das Beispiel Amerikas -- WINFRIED SCHULZE Ende der Moderne? Zur Korrektur unseres Begriffs der Moderne aus historischer Sicht -- AGNES HELLER Die ethischen Alternativen der Moderne -- KENNETH MINOGUE Drei Formen des modernen europäischen Staates -- JEAN-FRANÇOIS LYOTARD Zeit heute -- HANS-MARTIN GAUGER Gibt es eine Sprache der Moderne? -- JOSEPH CROPSEY Über die Alten und die Modernen. ISBN 3492111432
Schlagworte: Moderne