Beyond the Mainstream
Essays on Modern and Contemporary Art

A 1998 selection of Peter Selz's essays on art and artists of the twentieth century.

Peter Selz (Author)

9780521556248, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 January 1998

348 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.61 kg

This selection of essays, first published in 1998 by a prominent art historian, critic, and curator of modern art, examines the art and artists of the twentieth century who have operated outside the established art world. In lucid and accessible prose, Peter Selz explores modern art as it reflects, and has had an impact on, the tremendous transformation of politics and culture, both in the United States and Europe. An authoritative overview of a neglected phenomenon, his essays explore the complex relationship between art at the periphery and art at the putative centre, and how marginal art has affected that of the mainstream.

Part I. Europe: 1. Ferdinand Hodler (1972)
2. Art in a turbulent era: German and Austrian Expressionism (1978)
3. Emergence of the Avant-Garde: first German autumn Salon of 1913 (1991)
4. Schoenberg and the visual arts (1974)
5. The persistence of Expressionism: the second generation (1989)
6. German realism of the twenties: the artist as social critic (1980)
7. Max Beckmann: the self-portraits (1992)
8. Degenerate Art reconstructed (1991)
9. Revival and survival of Expressionist trends in the art of the GDR (1989)
10. Eduardo Chillida: art in the public domain (1986, 1988)
Part II. Atlantic Crossing: 11. Americans abroad (1993)
12. The impact from abroad: foreign guests and visitors in California (1996)
13. Modernism comes to Chicago: the Institute of Design (1996)
14. New images of man (1959)
15. Directions in Kinetic sculpture (1966)
Part III. United States: 16. Max Beckmann in America (1984)
17. Sam Francis: Blue Balls (1991)
18. Agnes Denes: the artist as universalist (1992)
19. The flaccid art (1963)
20. Notes on Funk (1967)
21. Llyn Foulkes' work of the 1960s: images of disruption and illusion (1987)
22. Harold Persico Paris (1992)
23. Rupert Garcia: the artist as advocate (1991)
24. Oh Say Can You See? Flags: Johns to Burkhardt (1992)
25. Bedri Baykam: American xenophobia and Expressionist dreams (1986).

Subject Areas: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - [ACX]