Publisher:
Thames & Hudson/National Gallery of Art
Published:
06/2007
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17860707979
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Good. Size: 0x0x0; *This is a SOFTBOUND copy. * Published in tandem with the 2007 exhibition of the same name at the National Gallery of Art. Shelfwear and soiling present to the lower edge of the text block and wraps; otherwise book is clean, sharp cornered, crisp. 278p. Artists include Erno Berda, Miroslav Hak, John Heartfield, Gyula Pap, and Willi Ruge.
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Used-Very Good. A brilliantly illustrated survey of modernist photography in Central Europe, published in association with the National Gallery of Art. In the 1920s and 1930s, photography became an immense phenomenon across Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, and Poland. Through magazines and books, in advertisements and at exhibitions, from amateur clubs to avant-garde schools, photographs emerged as a key vehicle of modern consciousness. This book and the exhibition it accompanies present the work of approximately one hundred individuals whose creations exemplify the potential of photography in Central Europe between the two World Wars. Foto brings together for the first time works by recognized masters such as the Russian El Lissitzky, the Hungarian Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and the German Hannah Hoch--all of whom developed their photographic ideas in Germany--with contemporaries like Karel Teige and Jaromr Funke (Czechoslovakia), Kazimierz Podsadecki (Poland), Karoly Escher (Hungary), and Trude Fleischmann (Austria), who are less well known today. Organized thematically, the book explores topics from photomontage and war to gender identity, modern living, and the spread of Surrealism. It shows the shared experience of modernity in the region, whereby recently founded nations and dismantled empires alike sought their place within the new world order established in the aftermath of World War I. The illustrations, drawn from more than seventy collections in America and abroad, include several previously unpublished works as well as many others never before available in high-quality reproductions. 230 illustrations in color, tritone, & duotone. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.