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Neolithic childhood : art in a false present, c. 1930
Title
Neolithic childhood : art in a false present, c. 1930 / edited by Anselm Frank and Tom Holert.
ISBN
9783035801064
3035801061
Publication
Berlin : HKW : Diaphanes, [2018]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
460 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 28 cm
Notes
Catalog of an exhibition held at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, April 13 - July 9, 2018.
Part of Kanon-Fragen, a 2016-2019 series of exhibitions by the HKW.
Summary
Neolithic Childhood examines how in the interwar years the artistic avant-gardes in Europe and beyond reacted to the "crisis" of almost everything, from the barbarism of technological mass war to the hypocrisies of colonial discourse. The perceived need to re-establish European civilization after the disaster of the First World War led to an interminable reconstruction of origins and beginnings - making ground zero the limiting function of modernity. Based on the writings of the anti-academic art historian Carl Einstein (1885-1940), the exhibition is devoted to despair over the present and the pressing interest in altering humanity, as manifested from the 1920s to the 1940s in the artistic avant-gardes and the sciences. Exhibition: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (13.04.-09.07.2018).
Other editions
Neolithische Kindheit : Kunst in einer falschen Gegenwart, ca. 1930.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 25, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Handbook of art / Carl Einstein
The speckled leopard of the mixed self : Chaos theory, c. 1930 / Tom Holert
Vitalism/"Living" form / Jenny Nachtigall
After cosmogony : Carl Einstein on Jean Arp / Sebastian Zeidler
Neolithic childhood / Carl Einstein
Why did the 1930s identify with prehistory? / Maria Stavrinaki
Russian and non-Russian proletkult / Kerstin Stakemeier
Flipping the bird : Toyen / Ulrike Müller
Global art 1929: Kalifala Sidibé / Irene Albers
Formalism / Jenny Nachtigall
Function / Tom Holert
Handbuch der Kunst / Charles W. Haxthausen
Autonomy I / Sven Lütticken
Knowledge / Tom Holert
Mimesis, redoubled / Rosa Eidelpes
Myth[ology] / Sven Lütticken
Totality / Jenny Nachtigall
Art / Tom Holert
Blackbirds / Irene Albers
Avant-Garde / Chiara Marchini
Autonomy II / Kerstin Stakemeier
Primitivisms / Joyce S. Cheng
The training of ecstasy / Irene Albers
Gesture / Elena Vogman
Metamorphosis / Joyce S. Cheng
Nomadic/Sedentary / David Quigley
Hallucination / Tom Holert
Entdinglichung / David Quigley
Pornophilia / Kerstin Stakemeier
Transdualism / Zairong Xiang
Boomerang effect / Erhard Schüttpelz
The anti-colonialism of the surrealists / Irene Albers
Ethnographic surrealism / Irene Albers
Ethnologie du blanc / Irene Albers.
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