New Perspectives on Brucke Expressionism : Bridging History (Hardcover, New ed)

Contents: Preface; Part I Cultural and Material Identity: Introduction, Christian Weikop; Brucke, German expressionism and the issue of modernism, Rose-Carol Washton Long; Brucke, French art and German national identity, Timothy O. Benson; Some re-considerations of Brucke's 'new German style': shape, components and ramifications, Reinhold Heller; Wood - 'primitive' material for the creation of 'German sculpture', Monika Wagner. Part II Collectivity and Selfhood: Introduction, Christian Weikop; Kunstlergruppe Brucke and the public sphere: bridging the gender divide, Shulamith Behr; Difficult Kirchner - alternative traditions, visual tensions, autodidactism, Colin Rhodes; Otto Mueller and the Brucke: a creative dialogue, Tanja Pirsig-Marshall; Max Pechstein: outsider or trailblazer?, Aya Soika; Intersubjectivity and selfhood of the Brucke: a Kohutian perspective, Donald Kuspit. Part III Defamation and Rehabilitation: Introduction, Christian Weikop; Old masters of modern art: Brucke after 1945, John-Paul Stonard; The art of Brucke as a political issue, Christian Saehrendt; The British reception of Brucke and German expressionism, Christian Weikop; Bibliography; Index.