Product Description: "Anyone who directly and genuinely renders what drives him to create is one of us," proclaimed the manifesto of Die Brucke (The Bridge), a close-knit group of artists who first met in Dresden in 1905. Its founding members were four Jugendstil architecture students: Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner...read more

Product Description: In an exploration of modern existential experience unparalleled in the history of art, Edvard Munch, the internationally renowned Norwegian painter, printmaker and draftsman, sought to translate personal trauma into universal terms and in the process to comprehend the fundamental components of human existence: birth, love and death...read more

Product Description: The Specks Collection is noted for its high quality, breadth, and profound graphic power. In celebration of the gift to the museum, the collection is presented here for the first time in its entirety.

Product Description: What does it mean to be German? Recent answers to this question have ranged from the general ("Germans are always the other") to the analytic ("They are a multiple identity with a constant wish for redefinition"). The catalogue for Confronting Identities in German Art—an exhibition to run at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art from October, 2002 to January, 2003—turns to art works, artists, and their audiences to explore how Germans of the past two centuries have confronted issues of identity, both individual and collective...read more

Product Description: One of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, Max Beckmann is known for the depth and sensuous force of his works, but little is known about his personal life. Self-Portrait in Words reveals Beckmann's experience of life from the first years of his career in Berlin and Paris through his final years in the United States...read more

'Exhibition catalog devoted to the entire output of Lasar Segall is currently the most comprehensive overview of the artist and his work. The exhibition itself, one of the most complete retrospectives of Segall ever displayed, was seen only in Chicago and New York. Texts cover Segall's immigration to Germany (1905) and to Brazil (1924), and his artistic biography, highlighting his participation in the Dresdner Sezession as a key figure in the development of German expressionism and his subsequent significance in Brazilian modernism. Includes supplementary documentation, as well as a large number of photographs, ephemera, and publications. The exhibition included over 220 paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings; virtually all of them are reproduced here in color or b/w'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/ (view table of contents)

Product Description: The work of Gabriele Munter (1877-1962) shines like a jewel in the male-dominated avant-garde Expressionist movement. Most accounts of the frenetically creative years in Munich and Murnau fail to recognize the uniqueness of Munter's vision: her work is unjustly eclipsed by that of her colleagues, not least Vassily Kandinsky's...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, more than any other artist, epitomizes the spirit of Montmartre, one of the most colourful and vibrant quarters of Paris. Physically disabled since childhood, he was unable to participate in the typical pursuits of the aristocracy from which he came, preferring to find solace and inspiration in the brothels, theatres and cafes of Montmartre...read more

Product Description: One of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, Max Beckmann is known for the depth and sensuous force of his works, but little is known about his personal life. Self-Portrait in Words reveals Beckmann's experience of life from the first years of his career in Berlin and Paris through his final years in the United States...read more

Briefly traces the life and career of the modern Norwegian painter, discusses his series of paintings and prints, the Frieze of Life, and describes the background of each work