The Blaue Reiter Almanac - Softcover

Lankheit, Klaus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878467009 ISBN 13: 9780878467006

Publisher: MFA Publications, 2005

Synopsis

The Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) art movement was founded in 1911 by the young painters Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, and was active in Europe until 1914. Originally published in Munich in 1912 and edited by Kandinsky and Marc-- the movements's almanac presented their synthesis of international culture to the European avant garde at large. In both the selection of essays and its innovative interplay of word and image, The Blaue Reiter Almanac remains one of our most critically important works of literature on the art theory and culture of the twentieth century. This edition, long unavailable in English and indispensable to any student of Modernism, simulates the original German format, and includes documents, and musical notations, as well as seminal essays by Kandinsky, Schoenberg, Marc and others. Nearly 150 illustrations, from ancient and contemporary sources, capture the wide-ranging interests and passions that inspired Kandinsky's and Marc's programmatic attempt to make Modernism accessible across national and chronological boundaries. Also included is Klaus Lankheit's extensive critical introduction, which places the Blaue Reiter in context for contemporary readers.”The almanac remains unique among European writings on art; no other country produced a comparable work capturing the excitement and tension of the years before World War I.” (Will Grohmann)

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Language Notes

Text: English, German (translation)

Review

"We went with a divining rod through the art of the past and present. We showed only that art which lives untouched by the constraint of convention. Our devoted love was extended to all artistic expression which is born out of itself, lives on its own merit, and does not walk with the crutches of custom. Wherever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath, which will someday come to light" - Franz Marc"

Edition details

• Publisher: MFA Publications
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0878467009
• ISBN 13: 9780878467006
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 296