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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. This book is in English. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. Some wear to cover. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The brief chronological span of the exhibition eliminates from consideration immediate precursor movements such as Jugendstil-the German variant of Art Nouveau-or German Impressionism as well as Expressionism’s deeper roots in nineteenth-century German Romanticism and in other expressive currents that revealed themselves throughout the history of art. At the other end the closing year of 1920 is intended to restrict the survey to the originators of German Expressionism rather than to follow the transformation of the Expressionists’ initiate awareness into late manifestations and into various successor movements. Stylistically. German Expressionism is not so easily isolated. There remain interesting if art-historically unresolved issues including the relationship of the Br?cke to the Blaue Reiter on the one hand and to a second generation of predom- inantly urban painters such as Grosz Dix and the young Beckmann on the other. Nevertheless our purpose is to emphasize within the fifteen years under considera- tion and from diverse though ultimately related geographic origins those attributes that gave rise to the concept of Expressionism as a German intuition. What such attributes are is in part defined in the subsequent catalogue and perhaps should more reliably emerge as a visual rather than a theoretical experience from the works that comprise the exhibition itself. (MP)