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

Book Overview

Few artists spanned the movements of early-20th-century art as completely as did Hans Richter. Richter was a significant force in the developments of expressionsim, Dada, de Stijl, constructivism, and Surrealism, and the creator, with Viking Eggeling, of the abstract cinema. Along with Theo van Doesburg, Lazlo Moholy Nagy, El Lissitsky, 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. After his emigration to the United States in 1941, he contributed enormously to modernism in the United States and served as an important conduit between the American and European art communities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262061961
• ISBN13: 9780262061964
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.8"