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English

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2016

Écrit par
Sebastian Zeidler

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Cornell University Press

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Publié par

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Date de parution

22 janvier 2016

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781501701900

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

104 Mo

The German writer and art critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) has long been acknowledged as an important figure in the history of modern art, and yet he is often sidelined as an enigma. In Form as Revolt Sebastian Zeidler recovers Einstein's multifaceted career, offering the first comprehensive intellectual biography of Einstein in English.Einstein first emerged as a writer of experimental prose through his involvement with the anarchist journal Die Aktion. After a few limited forays into art criticism, he burst onto the art scene in 1915 with his book Negro Sculpture, at once a formalist intervention into the contemporary theory and practice of European sculpture and a manifesto for the sophistication of African art. Einstein would go on to publish seminal texts on the cubist paintings of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. His contributions to the surrealist magazine Documents (which Einstein cofounded with Georges Bataille), including writings on Picasso and Paul Klee, remain unsurpassed in their depth and complexity.In a series of close visual analyses-illustrated with major works by Braque, Picasso, and Klee-Zeidler retrieves the theoretical resources that Einstein brought to bear on their art. Form as Revolt shows us that to rediscover Einstein's art criticism is to see the work of great modernist artists anew through the eyes of one of the most gifted left-wing formalists of the twentieth century.

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Publié par

Cornell University Press

Date de parution

22 janvier 2016

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781501701900

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

104 Mo

FormasRevolt

Series editor: Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Cornell University

Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thoughtpublishes new English-language books in literary studies, criticism, cultural studies, and intellectual history pertaining to the German-speaking world, as well as translations of im-portant German-language works.Signaleconstrues “modern” in the broadest terms: the series covers topics ranging from the early modern period to the present.Signalebooks are published under a joint imprint of Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library in electronic and print formats. Please see http://signale.cornell.edu/.

FormasRevolt

CarlEinsteinandtheGroundofModernArt

SebastianZeidler

A Signale Book

CornellUniversityPressandCornellUniversityLibraryIthaca, NY

Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library gratefully acknowledge the College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell University, for support of the Signale series. Publication has also been made possible by the generous support of the Department of the History of Art Publications Fund, Yale University, and by the Frederick W. Hilles Publication Fund, Yale University.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.

First published 2015 by Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zeidler, Sebastian, author. Form as revolt : Carl Einstein and the ground of modern art / Sebastian Zeidler. pages cm — (Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-5017-0208-2 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8014-7984-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Art historians—Germany—20th century. 2. Art, Modern— 20th century—History. 3. Einstein, Carl, 1885–1940. I. Title. II. Series: Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.). N7483.E3Z34 2015 707.2′2—dc23 2015032294

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To my parents

Thetalehasoftenbeentold,withaninevitabilityofeventsandculmination,either melancholy or exultant. The conviction that it all had to happen is indeed difﬁcult to discard. Yet that conviction ruins the living interest of history and precludes a fair judgement upon the agents. They did not know the future.

—RonaldSyme,The Roman Revolution

ListofAbbreviations

CarlEinstein:ALife

CarlEinstein:AnIntroduction

1.TheLostWanderer

2.SculptureUngrounded

3.Cubism’sPassion

4.TheDoubleStyle

5.PrivateMythologies

Contents

AcknowledgmentsNotes CopyrightandPhotographicCreditsIndex

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