The Invention Of The 20th Century: Carl Einstein and the Avant-Gardes - Softcover

Uwe Fleckner

9788480263863: The Invention Of The 20th Century: Carl Einstein and the Avant-Gardes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8480263865 ISBN 13: 9788480263863

Publisher: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Ministero de Cultura, 2009

The art critic and historian Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was one of the most important and multifaceted personalities of the 20th-century artistic avant-garde. His books, articles and essays were fundamental pieces for the critical study of the avant-garde movements; in them he introduced the West to African art and ratified Cubism as a movement in its own right. His intellectual oeuvre, rediscovered in recent decades, is now paid tribute at the MNCARS. This is the first international exhibition to offer a visual description of the work of Einstein, a key figure in visual arts as well as literature, theatre, film and political action.The Invention of the 20th Century shows significant works by the most important artists of the avant-garde movements, whom Einstein knew and on whose careers he reflected and wrote. The one hundred and twenty pieces on display are signed by names like Braque, Dal�, Grosz, L�ger, Mir�, Picasso, Rousseau, Paul Klee and Otto Dix, to name a few.

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