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Item Number: 134364
Title: German Art in New York : The Canonization of Modern Art between 1904 and 1957
Author: Langfeld, Gregor
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789089647665
Description: Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015. 24cm., pbk., 232pp., 40 color, 100 b&w illus. Summary: Why did the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim in New York, as well as art collectors and curators such as Katherine Dreier and Alfred Barr, collect German art in the first half of the twentieth century? And why did certain works of art enter the canon while others did not? In this book, Gregor Langfeld argues that National Socialism played a crucial role in the canonization of German art between 1904 and 1957. He shows that art promoters depicted artists condemned by the Nazis as standing against fascism while proclaiming art linked with the Reich Ÿunworthy of the canon.Œ As a result, the post-1945 reputations of many artists associated with Neue Sachlichkeit, the New Objectivity movement, suffered. Ultimately, Langfeld offers important insights into the political and ideological motivations behind the New York art world’s fluctuations in opinion, fashion, and price.

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