Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950.

8vo. 418 pp. Very Good. Hard Cover. Blue cloth covered boards, with quarter cloth spine. Dust Jacket Very Good.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. ISBN: 0226041352 9780226041353.This text maps out Beckmann's life and draws attention to the occasions on or for which he produced his writings, to the importance writing had for him as a form of expression, and to both the contemporary and personal references of his ideas and images. Contents: Abbreviations List of Plates Preface and Acknowledgments Maps Introduction 1: Diary, August 14-September 20, 1903 2: Diary, December 6, 1903-January 6, 1904 3: Diary, January 6 or Afterward-March 9, 1904 4: Diary, April 1-May 7, 1904 5: Diary, December 26, 1908-April 4, 1909 6: Response to In Battle for Art: The Answer to the "Protest of German Artists" 7: "Thoughts on Timely and Untimely Art" 8: Diary, December 20, 1912-April 17, 1913 9: Statement for Exhibition at Hamburg Kunstverein, Max Beckmann (Gemalde), Walter Geffcken (Gemalde), Jules Pascin (Zeichnungen) 10: "The New Program" 11: Wartime Letters: East Prussia 12: Wartime Letters: Belgium (Courtrai, Roeselare, Ostende) 13: Wartime Letters: Roeselare, Wervicq, Brussels 14: Catalogue Foreword for Exhibition at I. B. Neumann Graphisches Kabinett, Berlin, Max Beckmann Graphik 15: "Creative Credo" 16: Text for Hell Portfolio 17: Contribution to "On the Value of Criticism: An Inquiry of Artists" 18: Ebbi: A Comedy 19: The Hotel: Drama in Four Acts 20: Letter for the Piper Almanach 21: Autobiography 22: "The Social Stance of the Artist by the Black Tightrope Walker" 23: "The Artist in the State" 24: Statement in the Catalogue of the Mannheim Kunsthalle Retrospective 25: Answer to Frankfurter Zeitung Questionnaire about Politics 26: "On My Painting" 27: Speech Given to His First Class in the United States, Washington University, St. Louis 28: "Letters to a Woman Painter" 29: Speech for Friends and Faculty during Commencement Week Activities, Washington University, St. Louis 30: "Can Painting Be Taught? 1. Beckmann's Answer" Table of Monetary Equivalents Notes Index.…