Main entry:

Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Title & Author:

Between worlds : a sourcebook of Central European avant-gardes, 1910-1930 / [exhibition] organised by Los Angeles County Museum of Art; edited by Timothy O. Benson and Eva Forgacs.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 2002.

Description:

735 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Timothy O. Benson and Eva Forgacs -- Ch. 1. National Traditions -- Quousque Tandem / Carl Vinnen -- Historical Development of Modern Art / Wilhelm Worringer -- Czechness of our Art / Milos Jiranek -- Josef Manes Exhibition at the Topic Salon / Bohumil Kubista -- Wyspianski as a Painter-Poet (Personal Impressions) / Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski -- Excerpts from Jan Matejko / Stanislaw Witkiewicz -- On the Artist's Calling and the Tasks of Art / Jacek Malczewski -- Wyspianskis's Stained Glass Windows at the Wawel Cathedral / Wlodzimierz Zulawski -- Excerpt from Hungarian Art / Lajos Fulep -- Exhibition Committee of University Youth (Belgrade), Invitation Letter (1904) -- Ch. 2. New Alternatives -- Honore Daumier: A Few Notes and His Work / Emil Filla -- Prism and the Pyramid / Pavel Janak -- Surface and Space / Otto Gutfreund -- On the Virtue of Neo-Primitivism / Emil Filla -- ^ Introduction to the second Skupina exhibition catalogue / Vaclav Vilem Stech -- Intellectual Basis of Modern Time / Bohumil Kubista -- Fragments of correspondence / Josef Capek -- Beauty of Modern Visual Form / Josef Capek -- Spirit of Change in Visual Art / Vlastislav Hofman -- Excerpt from Cubism / Vincenc Kramar -- Forms and the Soul / Gyorgy Lukacs -- Investigative Art / Karoly Kernstok -- Ways Have Parted / Gyorgy Lukacs -- Role of the Artist in Society / Karoly Kernstok -- Fragment from "Light the Torches" / Ion Minulescu -- Exhibit of Painting and Drawing: Derain, Forain, Galanis, Iser / N. D. Cocea -- Fragment from Tinerimea artistica exhibition catalogue / Theodor Cornel -- New Guidelines in Art / Theodor Cornel -- Statement / Editors of Insula -- Warning / Ion Vinea -- Ch. 3. Activation of the Avant-Garde -- Possessed / Franz Pfemfert -- Listen! / Ludwig Rubiner -- Futurists /
To Accompany Carlo D. Carra's Painting Anarchist Funeral / Lajos Kassak -- Program / Lajos Kassak -- Advertisement / Editors of Ma -- Poster and The New Painting / Lajos Kassak -- For the Comprehensive Ma Exhibition / Lajos Kassak -- Lajos Tihanyi / Gyorgy Boloni -- Janos Mattis-Teutsch / Ivan Hevesy -- Onward on Our Way / Lajos Kassak -- Galimbertis / Bela Uitz -- To the Holy Rebel / Jerzy Hulewicz -- Notes / Stanislaw Kubicki -- On Expressionism / Zbigniew Pronaszko -- Expressionism (Fragments from a Lecture) / Jankiel Adler -- Struggle for A New Form / Henryk Berlewi -- Overcoming Art / El Lissitzky -- To the Polish Nation: A Manifesto Concerning the Immediate Futurization of Life / Bruno Jasienski -- Manifesto Concerning Futurist Poetry / Bruno Jasienski -- Nife in the Stomak: Futurist Speshal Ishew 2 / Bruno Jasienski -- And Yet! / Stanislav K. Neumann -- Obstinates and Friends / Vaclav Nebesky -- Ch. 4. Art and Revolution -- Manifesto / The November Group -- Program of the Bauhaus in Weimar / Walter Gropius -- Manifesto / Work Council for Art -- On the First Exhibition of Bauhaus Student Work / Walter Gropius -- Proclamation for the Communist Republic! / The Artists of Ma -- Proclamation for Art! / Lajos Kassak -- Soviet Hungary since March 21 / Georg Kulka -- Art of the Revolution -- Or Art of the Party? / Arpad Szelpal -- Excerpts from "Activism" / Lajos Kassak -- We Need a Dictatorship! / Bela Uitz -- Mass Culture, Mass Art / Ivan Hevesy -- Letter to Bela Kun in the Name Of Art / Lajos Kassak -- Letter / Lajos Tihanyi -- Ch. 5. Form as the Agent of Social Change -- Statement / The Devetsil Association of Artists -- Defeatism in Art / Vaclav Nebesky -- Excerpts from New Form in Painting and the Misunderstanding Arising Therefrom / Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz -- ^ On Deformation in Pictures / Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Excerpt from "About Multiplicity of Reality in Art" / Leon Chwistek -- On Green Eye and his Painting / Tytus Czyzewski -- Aesthetic Sketches / Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz -- Point of Departure / Tadeusz Peiper -- City Mass Machine / Tadeusz Peiper -- Notes on Russian Art / Wladyslaw Strzeminski -- Reaction of the Environment / Mieczyslaw Szczuka -- Zenithist Manifesto / Ljubomir Micic, Ivan Goll and Bosko Tokin -- Manifesto / Branko Ve Poljanski -- Man and Art / Ljubomir Micic -- Excerpts from "The Spirit of Zenithism" / Ljubomir Micic -- Expressionism is Dying / Ivan Goll -- Ch. 6. International Dada -- Dada Manifesto / Tristan Tzara -- What is Dadaism and What Does it Want in Germany? / Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck and Jelim Golyscheff -- Black Tomcat / Janos Macza -- Green-Headed Man / Sandor Barta -- First Gathering of the Mad in a Garbage Bin / Sandor Barta -- Manifesto / Odon Palasovszky and Ivan Hevesy -- Green Donkey Pantomime / Sandor Bortnyik -- Manifesto (Festo-Mani) / Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz -- Selections from Dada-Nyet / Branko Ve Poljanski -- Dadaism / Dragan Aleksic -- Kurt Schwitters Dada / Dragan Aleksic -- Tatlin: HPs + Man / Dragan Aleksic -- Zenith Express / Branko Ve Poljanski -- Dada / Roman Jakobson -- Modern Art Bazaar / Jaroslav Jira -- Picture / Jindrich Styrsky -- Painting and Poetry / Karel-Teige -- Creative Dada / Bedrich Vaclavek -- Excerpts from "Dadaism" / Frantisek Halas -- Excerpts from "Dada" / Karel Teige -- Ch. 7. International Constructivism in Germany and Austria -- Congress of International Progressive Artists: A Short Review of the Proceedings / Editors of De Stijl -- Manifesto of the Commune / Stanislaw Kubicki / [et al.] -- Second Manifesto of the Commune / Stanislaw Kubicki / [et al.] -- ^ International Exhibition in Dusseldorf / Henryk Berlewi
Stand Taken by the Vienna Ma Group toward the First Dusseldorf Congress of Progressive Artists / Lajos Kassak / [et al.] -- International Constructivist Creative Union / Theo van Doesburg / [et al.] -- Exhibition of Russian Artists / Paul Westheim -- On the Russian Exhibition / Adolf Behne -- Russian Exhibit in Berlin / Lajos Kassak -- Russian Exhibition in Berlin / Erno Kallai -- Notes To the Russian Artist Exhibition in Berlin / Alfred-Kemeny -- Through the Russian Exhibition in Berlin / Branko Ve Poljanski -- To the Artists of All Nations! / Lajos Kassak -- Provisional International Moscow Bureau of Creative-Artist Questions to the Hungarian Activists and the Hungarian Activists Reply -- Moholy-Nagy / Erno Kallai -- Lajos Kassak / Erno Kallai -- Picture Architecture / Lajos Kassak -- Great Festival in Moscow / Bela Uitz -- Constructivism / Erno Kallai -- Correction (to the Attention of De Stijl) / Erno Kallai -- Manifesto / Erno Kallai / [et al.] -- On the New Theatrical Art / Lajos Kassak -- Electro-Mechanical Show / El Lissitzky -- Theater as an Artistic Phenomenon / Herwarth Walden -- Hungarian Activist Movement / Endre Gaspar -- Production-Reproduction / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- KURI Manifesto / Farkas Molnar -- Bauhaus Manifesto / Oskar Schlemmer -- Film Sketch Dynamics of a Metropolis / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Life at the Bauhaus / Farkas Molnar -- Film at the Bauhaus: a Rejoinder / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Herwarth Walden / Erno Kallai -- Call for Elementarist Art / Raoul Hausmann, Hans Arp and Ivan Puni / [et al.] -- Statement from Der Sturm catalogue / Janos Mattis-Teutsch -- Dynamic-Constructive System of Forces / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Alfred Kemeny -- Aims of the Pre Theater / Raoul Hausmann and Laszlo Peri -- Arts Abroad / Henryk Berlewi -- ^ Constructivist Art and Peri's Spatial Constructions / Alfred Kemeny
Second Presentist Declaration -- Addressed to the International Constructivists / Viking-Eggeling and Raoul Hausmann -- Dynamic Principle of Cosmic Construction, as Related to the Functional Significance of Constructive Design / Alfred Kemeny -- Abstract Design from Suprematism to the Present / Alfred Kemeny -- Prague / Hans Richter -- Toward Constructivism / Hans Richter -- Photography in Reverse / Tristan Tzara -- Concrete Light / Nikolaus Braun -- Ch. 8. International Constructivism in Central Europe -- Mechano-facture / Henryk Berlewi -- Editorial-Statement / Editors of Blok -- Untitled statements on Suprematism and painting / Henryk Stazewski -- Theses on New Art / Wladislaw Strzeminski -- At Attempt to Explain the Misunderstandings Related to the Public's Attitude to New Art / Mieczyslaw Szczuka -- What Constructivism Is / Editors of Blok -- B=2 / Wladyslaw Strzeminski -- Photomontage / Mieczyslaw Szczuka -- On Abstract Art / Henryk Stazewski -- Shimmy at the Latin Quarter Graveyard / Ljubomir Micic -- Categorical Imperative of the Zenithist School of Poetry / Ljubomir Micic -- Barbarogenius / Ljubomir Micic -- New Art / Ljubomir Micic -- Zenithosophy: Or the Energetics of Creative Zenithism / Ljubomic Micic -- Barbarism as Culture / Risto Ratkovic -- Toward the Documentation of the European Cultural Crisis: Five Years of Zenithism / Tivadar Raitn -- Upside Down / Branko Ve Poljanski -- Beyond-Sense Poetry / Ljubomic Micic -- Zenithism through the Prism of Marxism / Ljubomir Micic -- Notes on Painting / Marcel Janco -- Art Notes / Marcel Janco -- Victor Brauner / Ilarie Voronca -- Aviograma / Ilarie Voronca -- Untitled statement / Ilarie Voronca -- Pictopoetry / Victor Brauner and Ilarie Voronca -- Assessments / Ilarie Voronca -- Contimporanul Exhibition (Notes) / Scarlat Callimachi -- First Contimporanul International Exhibition / Tudor Vianu
Marcel Janco / Ilarie Voronca -- Visual Chrona-metering / M. H. Maxy -- Conversations with Lucian Blaga / Felix Aderca -- Grammar / Ilarie Voronca -- Voices / Ilarie Voronca -- International Exhibition Organized by the Magazine Contimporanul / Oscar Walter Cisek -- Man / Editors of Integral -- Surrealism and Integralism / Ilarie Voronca -- From Futurism to Integralism / Mihail Cosma -- Black Art / Corneliu Michailescu -- Note about Sculpture / Militsa Petrascu -- Initiation in the Mysteries of an Exhibition: The Sensational Pronouncements of Militsa Petrascu and Marcel Janco / G. C. Jacques -- Cubism / Marcel Janco -- Coloring / Marcel Janco -- Urmuz / Geo Bogza -- Greetings! / Avgust Cernigoj -- Marij Kogoj's Black Masks / Mirko Polic -- Theater Co-op / Ferdinand Delak -- Tank Manifesto / Avgust Cernigoj -- Constructivist Group in Trieste / Avgust Cernigoj -- Poetism / Karel Teige -- Constructivism and the Liquidation of Art / Karel Teige -- Artificialism / Jindrich Styrsky and Toyen -- Poet (Lecture Given on the Occasion of an Exhibition Opening) / Jindrich Styrsky and Toyen -- Excerpts from "Poetism Manitesto" / Karel Teige -- Ultraviolet Paintings, or, Artificialism (Notes on the Paintings of Styrsky and Toyen) / Karel Teige -- Ch. 9. Hungarians in Exile -- Back to the Workbench / Lajos Kassak -- Architecture / Erno Kallai -- Twilight of Ideologies / Erno Kallai -- Excerpt from New Painting in Hungary / Erno Kallai -- Advertisements / Lajos Kassak -- Letter to Erich Buchholz / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Ch. 10. Bauhaus Resonances -- At the Bauhaus / Tadeusz Peiper -- Ten Years of the Bauhaus / Karel Teige -- Excerpts from "Ten Years of Bauhaus" / Erno Kallai -- Ch. 11. Poland -- Contemporary Style / Henryk Stazewski -- ^ Rules of the S.I. Witkiewicz Portrait-Painting Firm / Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Unism in Painting / Wladyslaw Strzeminski -- Sculpture and Solid / Katarzyna Kobro -- Plastic Art as the Summary of Culture Life / Henryk Stazewski -- Communique of the a.r. Group / Wladyslaw Strzeminski / [et al.] -- Excerpts from Composition of Space: Calculations of Space-Time Rhythm / Katarzyna Kobro and Wladyslaw Strzeminski -- Malevich in Poland / Tadeusz Peiper -- Funeral of Suprematism / Mieczyslaw Szczuka -- Art and Reality / Mieczyslaw Szczuka -- Ch. 12. Prague -- Introduction to the Fronta Almanac / Editors of Fronta -- Generation's Corner / Jindrich Styrsky -- Founding Manifesto / The Left Front -- Ch. 13. Amsterdam and Stuttgart -- Photography Unparalleled / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Painting and Photography / Erno Kallai -- Debate on Erno Kallai's Article Painting and Photography / Willi Baumeister / [et al.] -- Reply / Erno Kallai -- Letter to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy / Kazimir Malevich -- Vanguard Skirmish' in Stuttgart / Andor Kraszna-Krausz -- Photography -- The Pictorial Art of the Present Day / Ludwig Neundorter -- Opening of the Werkbund Exhibition Film and Photo / Anonymous -- Form, Photo and Film / W. Riezler -- Ch. 14. Bucharest -- Reflections of Cubism / Marcel Janco -- Fragments from "A Contribution to Our History of Modernism: What A Young Painter Tells Us" / Ionel Jianu -- Manifesto / Sasa Pana -- M. H. Maxy / Ilaire Voronca -- Victor Brauner / Ilarie Voronca -- Marinetti / Ion Vinea and Marcel Janco -- F. T. Marinetti / Ilarie Voronca -- Our Own Futurism / Marcel Janco -- Rehabilitation of the Dream / Geo Bogza -- Ch. 15. Germany -- Ten Years of the November Group / Erno Kallai -- Art and the General Public / Erno Kallai -- Vision and the Law of Form / Erno Kallai -- Theo van Doesburg / Walter Dexel -- Politics of Art in the Third Reich / Erno Kallai.

ISBN:

0262025302
9780262025300

Subject:

Art, European 20th century Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Europe, Central History 20th century Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Europe, Central History 20th century Sources.
Art européen Europe centrale 20e siècle Sources.
Avant-garde (Esthétique) Europe centrale Histoire 20e siècle Sources.
Art, European
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Art, European Europe, Central 20th century Sources.
Central Europe

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Sources
Exhibition catalogs
History

Added entries:

Benson, T. O.
Forgacs, E.
Benson, Timothy O., 1950-
Forgács, Éva
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222925
Call No.: N6758 .B4 2002
Status: External loan