Additional Author:
Benson, Timothy O., 1950-
Publisher:Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.
Description:447 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.
Note:Exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mar. 3- June 2, 2002, Haus der Kunst, Munich, July 7- Oct. 6, 2002 and at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Nov.2002- Feb.2003.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 416-430) and index.
Note:A careful definition of the locale : walking around and around a solitary wild pear tree / Péter Nádas -- Exchange and transformation : the internationalization of the avant-garde(s) in Central Europe / Timothy O. Benson -- Nationalism and modernity / Anthony D. Smith --The first Skupina exhibition, Prague, 1912 -- Surrealities / Derek Sayer -- Poetry in the Midst of the world : the avant-garde as projectile / Karel Srp -- Central Europe : the linguistic turn / Michael Henry Heim -- Between cultures : Hungarian concepts of constructivism / Éva Forgács -- Art into life : international constructivism in Central and Eastern Europe / Christina Lodder -- The first Bauhaus exhibition, Weimar, 1923 -- The exhibition as a work of art : avant garde exhibitions in East Central Europe / Krisztina Passuth -- Ljubomir Micic and the Zenitist Utopia / Esther Levinger --Methodology and meaning in the Modern Art of Eastern Europe / S.A. Mansbach -- Modernity and nationalism : avant-garde art and Polish independence, 1912-1922 / Piotr Piotrowski -- Collaboration and compromise : women artist in Polish-German avant-garde circles, 1910-1930 / Monika Król -- The phenomenon of blurring / Andrzej Turowski.
