Beckmann : Figuras del Exilio = Exile Figures

2019

Boek; 210 p ill

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Tent. Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 25-10-2018, 27-01-2019 ; Barcelona, Obra Social "la Caixa", 21-02-2019, 26-05-2019. - Coll. VAM: Beckmann, Max, Winterlandschaft, 1930, p. 82 ill. kleur. - Exhibition brings together more than 60 of Beckmann’s works, including paintings, lithographs and sculptures. The publication offers a full overview of Beckmann’s life and career, beginning with his years in Germany—from his first public recognition prior to World War I through the rise of National Socialism in the 1930s, when he was fired from his teaching position in Frankfurt and banned from exhibiting in public. After this, Beckmann went into self-imposed exile in Amsterdam and the United States, where he would live out the rest of his life. This book interprets the artist’s entire career through metaphors of exile, understood both literally and as the existential condition of modern man. Max Beckmann examines several thematic strands of exile and alienation in the artist’s work: the loss of identity associated with the condition of exile; the modern city as the capital of exile; the parallels between exile and death; and the concept of the infinite, with its twin powers of seduction and alienation.

Located in: BECKMANN, MAX

ISBN: 978-84-9900-216-3

VUBIS: 2:102414