One of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, Max Beckmann is known for the depth and sensuous force of his works, but little is known about his personal life. Self-Portrait in Words reveals Beckmann's experience of life from the first years of his career in Berlin and Paris through his final years in the United States. This collection of Beckmann's writings serves as a companion to his art and a testament to the complexities of his life. "Barbara Copeland Buenger . . . has done an excellent job of ...
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One of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, Max Beckmann is known for the depth and sensuous force of his works, but little is known about his personal life. Self-Portrait in Words reveals Beckmann's experience of life from the first years of his career in Berlin and Paris through his final years in the United States. This collection of Beckmann's writings serves as a companion to his art and a testament to the complexities of his life. "Barbara Copeland Buenger . . . has done an excellent job of editing and annotating Beckmann's voluminous private and public writings."--Andrea Barnet, New York Times Book Review
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New. This work reveals German artist Max Beckmann's experience of life from the first years of his career in Berlin and Paris through his final years in the United States. The collection of Beckmann's writings serves as a companion to his art and a testament to the complexities of his life. Translator(s): Buenger, Barbara Copeland (Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin, USA); Heller, Reinhold (Professor of Art and German, University of Chicago, USA); Britt, David. Num Pages: 444 pages, 10 halftones, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; ACX; AFC; AGB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 582. 1999. Illustrated. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0226041352. This is new book just opened from plastic. Stiff to open, but with tiny hanging chad on half title page evidently done at publisher's.
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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.
