Titel
Max Beckmann. Die Suche nach dem Ich
Ausgabensprache
Deutsch
Autor(en)
Wendy Beckett
Originaltitel
Max Beckmann. Die Suche nach dem Ich
Verlag
Prestel Verlag
ISBN
3791317938
EAN
9783791317939
Ausgabe
Gebundene Ausgabe
Inhalt/Klappentext
Sister Wendy Beckett, the presenter of three major television series' on art, examines Max Beckmann's self-portraiture, shedding new light on the way the traumatic events in the artist's life were reflected in his painting. She observes "he painted himself as if thereby to find himself. If he could make visible...these lineaments, that expression, that visual record of his experience, then he might come to a deeper experience of what he was." By tracing the changing moods of Beckmann's painting throughout his life, Sister Wendy plots a series of peaks and troughs in the artist's feeling of self-worth. She correlates these directly with events in his life, and reveals a number of hidden selfportraits. Much of Beckmann's work was dramatically influenced by the two world wars, and Sister Wendy argues that it was only the artist's last works, in America, that demonstrated he had finally reached fulfillment.
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