Women artists in expressionism : from empire to emancipation / Shulamith Behr.

Author/creator Behr, Shulamith author.
Format Electronic
PublicationPrinceton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Description1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Supplemental ContentEbook Central
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Contents Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Archives -- 1. Women Artists, Expressionist Avant-Garde Culture, and the Public Sphere -- 2. The Canonizing of Paula Modersohn-Becker: Embodying the Subject and the Feminization of Expressionism -- 3. Käthe Kollwitz, the Expressionist Milieu, and the Making of Her Career -- 4. Female Avant-Garde Identity and Creativity in the Blaue Reiter: The Possibility of a "Blaue Reiterreiterin" -- 5. Europeanism and Neutrality as Active Intervention: Gabriele Münter, Sturmkünstlerin, and Swedish Expressionism (1915-20)
Contents 6. The Gender and Geopolitics of Neutrality: Jacoba van Heemskerck, the Sturm Circle, and Spiritual Abstraction (1913-23) -- 7. The Formation of the Modern Woman Patron, Collector, and Dealer: From Brücke to Second-Generation Expressionism -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Photo Credits
Abstract "Featuring a selection of women artists active between 1890 to 1924, this book investigates divergent responses to the dramatic historical events and structural transformations during the early twentieth century. It reveals their efforts, with greater or relative success, to negotiate the competitive market economy of the late Wilhelmine empire and the uncertainties of the early Weimar Republic. In examining these artists, Shulamith Behr uncovers the overlooked importance of women's emancipative ideals to the development of avant-garde culture. Behr explores the richness of the women's engagement with and shaping of Expressionism, the modern art movement noted for its intention to express the emotional-rather than physical-reality of the artist. Behr examines the posthumous critical reception of Paula Modersohn-Becker as a prime agent of the feminization of the movement; Käthe Kollwitz's use of printmaking as a vehicle for technical innovation and socio-political commentary; and the dynamic relationship between Marianne Werefkin and Gabriele Münter, including their different national and cultural origins and paths towards Expressionism in the Blaue Reiter, a group of artists that included Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Additional chapters examine the role of Herwarth Walden's and Nell Walden's role as art dealers who promoted women Expressionists during the First World War, Münter's encounter with Swedish Expressionism in Scandinavia, and the recognition of Dutch-born abstractionist Jacoba van Heemskerck as an honorary German Expressionist"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageIn English.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 19, 2022).
Issued in other formPrint version: Behr, Shulamith. Women artists in expressionism Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022] 9780691044620
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2021059834
ISBN0691240965 electronic book
ISBN9780691240961 (electronic bk.)
ISBNhardcover
Standard identifier# 10.1515/9780691240961
Stock number22573/ctv2kqxhs9 JSTOR