Catalog of an exhibition held at Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium, Mar. 2-June 30, 2013. Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-339) and index.
Contents:
Artistes, expositions, revues, événements / Peter J.H. Pauwels (avec la collaboration de Virginie Devillez). Entre la sculpture et la peinture : le dialogue de Georges Vantongerloo avec l'infini / Marek Wieczorek -- Marthe Donas, une artiste d'avant-garde entre néocubisme et art abstrait / Peter J.H. Pauwels -- Au-delà de la mimesis : vers un art autonome en Belgique, 1917-1930 / Johan De Smet -- Paul Joostens et son royaume dadaïste de choses inutiles / Phillip Van den Bossche -- L'internationalisme des revues modernistes / Ceri-Anne can de Geer, Angelica Overwater, Laura Kollwelter -- La conception graphique en Belgique pendant l'entre-deux-guerres / Katrien Van Haute -- La réception du modernisme belge / Sergio Servellón -- L'art communautaire au début des années 1920 : de l'expressionnisme au constructivisme / Hans Vandevoorde -- Abstraction et modernisme dans la photographie et le cinéma belges 1920-1935 / Steven Jacobs et Liesbeth Decan -- Architecture et modernisme 1912-1940 / Marc Dubois -- Chronologie sommaire 1912-1933. Artistes, expositions, revues, événements / Peter J.H. Pauwels (avec la collaboration de Virginie Devillez).
Summary:
In this book, the Belgian historical avant-garde around 1920 is viewed for the first time from a broader European perspective. Not only did protagonists like Jules Schmalzigaug, Georges Vantongerloo and Marthe Donas establish an immediate link with Italian futurism, the Nieuwe Beelding (or neoplasticism) and post-cubism, but in 1920 Karel Maes, Jozef Peeters and Victor Servranckx began to play a prominent role in European constructivism. The pursuit of a community art was not restricted to visual art, as evidenced by architecture and applied art, but also literature, music and the performing arts. Belgian photography and films were also a reflection of international modernism. In this book Belgium's earliest abstract artists are juxtaposed for the first time with like-minded foreign artists such as Fernand Léger, László Moholy-Nagy, Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg. Exhibition: Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium (2.3.-30.6.2013).
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