Hans Richter: Activism, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde

New critical perspectives on Hans Richter, the artist and political activist who played a major role in the shaping of the twentieth-century avant-garde.Few artists spanned the movements of early twentieth-century art as completely as did Hans Richter. Richter was a major force in the developments of expressionism, Dada, De Stijl, constructivism, and Surrealism, and the creator, with Viking Eggeling, of the abstract cinema. Along with Theo van Doesburg, László Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, and a few others, he is one of the artists crucial to an understanding of the role of the arts in the reconstruction era following World War I. Most American scholars have focused on Richter's film work and have favored a strictly formalist approach that separates art and politics. The contributors to this book rewrite Richter's history to include his pivotal role in the development of the early twentieth-century avant-garde and his political activism. When Richter's work, particularly that of his earlier, European career, is viewed in its historical and political context, he emerges as an artist committed to the power of art to change the fabric of social, political, and cultural affairs.

Arts & Photography

Foster, Stephen C.

History & Criticism

Mit Pr

Despite the short life of the Dada movement, it has provoked the interest of art historians, museum directors and literary critics from all over the world. The present volume comprises the literary texts of individual Dadaists and periodicals from all Dada centers as well as books, articles, exhibition catalogs and bibliographies by international scholars. 
Jörgen Schäfers Exquisite Dada is the most exhaustive bibliography on Dada that has ever been compiled so far. By giving a synopsis of some decades of scholarly research, it provides an indispensable source for further studies on the matter.

The History of Dada: Exquisite Dada (Crisis and the Arts)

Schäfer, Jörgen

G.K. Hall

Examines all aspects of the artist's production and discusses his connections with artists and radicals in pre-World War I New York, in Paris between the wars, and in Hollywood after World War II

Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray

Shattuck, Roger

Phillips, Sandra S.

Foresta, Merry

Klüver, Billy

Naumann, Francis

Turner, Elizabeth H.

Abbeville Pr

This volume combines two works, Rage and Liberation: Dada in Cologne and Hanover Dada: Transaction, Transformation and the Tradition of Modernism. Written by Charlotte Stokes, Rage and Liberation discusses the brief coalition between individuals committed to radical political action and innovation in the arts, while Hanover Dada, edited by Stephen C. Foster, presents this face of Dada as a complex phenomenon that extended beyond the artwork of Kurt Schwitters.

The History of Dada: Dada Cologne Hanover (Crisis and the Arts)

Stokes, Charlotte

The Critics of Abstract Expressionism

Umi Research Pr

Dada/dimensions (Studies in the fine arts. The avant-garde)

UMI Research Press

"Event" Arts and Art Events (Studies in the Fine Arts)

U.M.I. Research Press

Examines all aspects of the artist's production and discusses his connections with artists and radicals in pre-World War I New York, in Paris between the wars, and in Hollywood after World War II

Individual Artists

Martin, Julie

Lkuver, Billy

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