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Chaos and Classicism

Art in France, Italy, and Germany 1918-1936


  • Guggenheim Museum
  • Guggenheim Museum
  • by Emily Braun, James D. Herbert, Jeanne Anne Nugent & Kenneth E. Silver
This catalogue accompanies "Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany 1918-1936", the first exhibition in the United States to explore the classicizing aesthetic that followed the immense destruction of World War I. This book is the first to examine classicism between the wars in Europe, and as such will be an original addition to the art historical canon.

ISBN 9780892074044 | E | HB
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Publisher Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 9780892074044
Author(s) Emily Braun, James D. Herbert, Jeanne Anne Nugent & Kenneth E. Silver
Publication date October 2010
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 267 x 222 mm
Illustrations 140 col.ill.
Pages 192
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Exhibition Guggenheim Museum
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This catalogue accompanies 'Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936', the first exhibition in the United States to explore the classicizing aesthetic that followed the immense destruction ofWorldWar I. It examines the interwar period in its key artistic manifestations: the poetic dream of antiquity in the Parisian avant-garde of Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso; the politicized revival of the Roman Empire under Benito Mussolini by artists such as Giorgio de Chirico and Mario Sironi; and the functionalist utopianism at the Bauhaus as well as, chillingly, the pseudobiological classicism, or Aryanism, of nascent Nazi society. This presentation encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film, fashion and the decorative arts. Fully illustrated and with essays by Emily Braun, James D. Herbert, Jeanne Anne Nugent and Kenneth E. Silver, this book is the first to examine classicism between the wars in Europe, and as such will be an original addition to the art historical canon.

Chaos and Classicism

Chaos and Classicism

€55.50